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    • arhiundefined
      arhi @Danal
      last edited by

      @Danal that's a nice feature (ctrlc once) 🙂
      I'll test the new code asap 🙂

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      • Danalundefined
        Danal @arhi
        last edited by

        @arhi said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

        @Danal said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

        Well, drat, I obviously have gaps in my test cases.

        😄

        I edited the code and removed the whole camparms thing and hardcoded the call to fswebcam to test it. Having some issues now of other kind (that's a fedora vm with usb camera connected trough vm-terminal as the camera with good view of the printer is on usb on my desktop so I can monitor during testing phase 😄 ) so don't have the test video yet but so far it seems to be working. Anyhow the device and resolution are hardcoded? Why? fswebcam will use -d /dev/video0 as default anyways so I don't see reason for you to hardcode it and if user want to use other one like i420:/dev/video1 you can't pass that parametar to fswebcam as you already hardcoded video0, also resolution, what if I want 1280x960 as that's native to C270, you hardcoded 800x600 ?

        Maybe let fswebcam use default values (low res, video0 ..) and show in help example how to get some decent values (higher res etc..)

        Yeah, you have very valid points. I THOUGHT I did the minimum to get a usable image... but it really looks like I should have let more things default.

        I can do it two ways:

        1. Remove everything I can and risk the auto stuff not working for a true "newbie" for some reason or another

        (Probably going to do this... low risk...)

        1. Have camparms replace EVERYTHING, except the file name.

        Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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        • Danalundefined
          Danal
          last edited by

          OK, I did a little of both. Removed quite a bit from the 'defaults', AND changed it so that if you specified 'camparms -parms' the only thing that is added is the filename.

          And, introduced "vidparms -parms '. Works the exact same way, except it is passed to ffmpeg.

          Ready for test right now.

          Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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          • Danalundefined
            Danal
            last edited by Danal

            pi@duet3:~/DuetLapse $ ./DuetLapse.py -h
            usage: DuetLapse.py [-h] -duet DUET [-camera {usb,pi,web,dslr}]
                                [-seconds SECONDS] [-detect {layer,pause,none}]
                                [-pause {yes,no}] [-movehead MOVEHEAD MOVEHEAD]
                                [-weburl WEBURL] [-dontwait]
                                {camparms,vidparms} ...
            
            Program to create time lapse video from camera pointed at Duet3D based
            printer.
            
            optional arguments:
              -h, --help            show this help message and exit
              -duet DUET            Name or IP address of Duet printer.
              -camera {usb,pi,web,dslr}
              -seconds SECONDS
              -detect {layer,pause,none}
              -pause {yes,no}
              -movehead MOVEHEAD MOVEHEAD
              -weburl WEBURL
              -dontwait             Capture images immediately.
            
            subcommands:
              {camparms,vidparms}   DuetLapse camparms -h or vidparms -h for more help
            
            pi@duet3:~/DuetLapse $ ./DuetLapse.py camparms -h
            usage: DuetLapse.py camparms [-h] [-- ...]
            
            camparm -parms xxx where xxx is passed to fswebcam, raspistill, or wget.
            
            pi@duet3:~/DuetLapse $ ./DuetLapse.py vidparms -h
            usage: DuetLapse.py vidparms [-h] [-- ...]
            
            vidparms -parms xxx where xxx is passed to ffmpeg.
            
            pi@duet3:~/DuetLapse $
            

            Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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            • PaulHewundefined
              PaulHew
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              @Danal I have been using your tool for a week now and there is one thing which would be nice.
              I have to log into the Pi to send the DuetLapse.py -camera pi - detect layer -duet 192.168.0.7
              All this Pi does is run the TimeLapse software.

              When it has finished I have to log back in again and do it all again.

              Is there a way that it can run all of the time as a service and maybe send a telnet command from the Duet to say,
              I am about to print, get ready!!
              i.e. M118 P4 S"Print Starting"

              Which in turn enables DuetLapse with the users setting.

              Just a thought

              Regards,
              Paul.

              RailCore II - Duet Mini + 1LC, Voron V0.1 - Duet Mini
              Voron 2.4 disassembled..... Waiting for the RailCore Mini....

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              • Danalundefined
                Danal
                last edited by

                I will think about a way to do this... while minimally banging on the printer between prints.

                Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                • PaulHewundefined
                  PaulHew
                  last edited by

                  Had a Malloc error, used all default settings.

                  Capturing frame   522 at X10.00 Y280.00 Z120.00
                  
                  Now making 523 frames into a video at 10 frames per second.
                  This can take a while...
                  x264 [error]: malloc of size 25549312 failed
                  Video encoding failed
                  Killed
                  Video processing complete.
                  Video file is in home directory, named ~/DuetLapse0413200101.mp4
                  
                  

                  😞 Was looking forward to this TimeLapse

                  RailCore II - Duet Mini + 1LC, Voron V0.1 - Duet Mini
                  Voron 2.4 disassembled..... Waiting for the RailCore Mini....

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                  • Danalundefined
                    Danal
                    last edited by

                    As long as you have NOT started the overall script again, or rebooted, the images are still there and you can try to make the video over and over.

                    The actual command issued is:

                    ffmpeg -r 10 -i /tmp/DuetLapse/IMG%08d.jpeg -vcodec libx264 -y -v 8 ~/DuetLapse0413200101.mp4

                    You could try other ffmpeg options (I am not an expert), try making two videos out of half the images, and stitch the vids together later, etc, etc.

                    To be clear, the images are in /tmp and are named

                    IMG00000001.jpeg
                    IMG00000002.jpeg

                    Etc.

                    Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                    • mrwulffundefined
                      mrwulff
                      last edited by

                      Awesome program. One issue I've always had is that my wifi and or duet do not like each other and disconnect constantly, but will always reconnect eventually. Is it possible to automatically 'skip' a frame if there is no connection to the printer at that time and not to throw an error?

                      Also would be nice if it looked at the file name it was printing and made subfolders with the name of the print

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                      • Danalundefined
                        Danal @mrwulff
                        last edited by

                        @mrwulff said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

                        Awesome program. One issue I've always had is that my wifi and or duet do not like each other and disconnect constantly, but will always reconnect eventually. Is it possible to automatically 'skip' a frame if there is no connection to the printer at that time and not to throw an error?

                        Yes, I will add some error handling to the key spots.

                        Also would be nice if it looked at the file name it was printing and made subfolders with the name of the print

                        Hey, great idea!

                        Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                        • Baenwortundefined
                          Baenwort @Danal
                          last edited by

                          @Danal does DuetLapse require RRF3 or a certain version or above of DWC?

                          I'm interested in trying it.by I don't know.what you mean by the step that says to place the DuetLapseAPI.Ph in the python libpath? Is it enough to place all the .py files in one directory?

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                          • Danalundefined
                            Danal
                            last edited by

                            @Baenwort said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

                            @Danal does DuetLapse require RRF3 or a certain version or above of DWC?

                            • Supports Duet printers running V2, V3 standalone and V3 +Pi.
                            • Printer must be reachable via the network.

                            I'm interested in trying it.by I don't know.what you mean by the step that says to place the DuetLapseAPI.Ph in the python libpath? Is it enough to place all the .py files in one directory?

                            That step actually says: Copy included module https://github.com/DanalEstes/DuetWebAPI/blob/master/DuetWebAPI.py to the same directory, or to anywhere in python's libpath.

                            Thanks for the questions, I will do a bit of readme editing to make all above more clear.

                            Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                            • tekkydaveundefined
                              tekkydave
                              last edited by

                              If it helps with putting caption overlays on your output movie files I have been playing with ffmpeg in the last few days. The command I am using is

                              ffmpeg -r 10 -i ./IMG%06d.jpg -vcodec libx264 -crf 15 -s 800x600 -pix_fmt yuv420p -y -v warning -vf drawtext="fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf: text='Text to put on screen':fontsize=40:fontcolor=yellow:box=1:boxborderw=5:boxcolor=black@0.5:x=10:y=10" movie.mp4
                              

                              This will give you a caption in the top-left with a semi-transparent black box around

                              Screenshot from 2020-04-15 14-56-24.png

                              HTH
                              Dave

                              ~ tekkydave ~
                              D-Bot: 300x300mm | Duet WiFi + Duex2 | 3 independent z motors | X,Y & Z linear rails | E3D Titan Aero + V6 | Precision Piezo z-probe
                              FreeCAD, PrusaSlicer

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                              • Danalundefined
                                Danal
                                last edited by

                                What people are requesting changes as the frames flow. Things like Z height, etc. I believe those overlays need to be part of the stills.

                                Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                                • tekkydaveundefined
                                  tekkydave @Danal
                                  last edited by tekkydave

                                  @Danal said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

                                  What people are requesting changes as the frames flow. Things like Z height, etc. I believe those overlays need to be part of the stills.

                                  That's true, if they need to reflect things changing as the print progresses.

                                  I'm writing a similar program to yours. I use motioneye to generate my original images from a picam which is then displayed in the DWC Webcam view (or via a browser window).
                                  Motioneye uses motion which has a http api available.

                                  e.g. To take snapshots

                                  http://localhost:7999/1/action/snapshot
                                  

                                  will cause motion to take a snapshot from Camera 1 and place it in

                                  /var/lib/motioneye/Camera1
                                  

                                  I'm picking them up from there, creating a movie when the print is complete (ffmpeg) and uploading it to my NAS server.

                                  I had thought of doing something like this for a while but you have inspired me to get it done. I admit I have "borrowed" a few ideas from your program. 🙂
                                  Also I'm using Java as it's what I'm more comfortable with. I like Netbeans as an IDE as it's perfect for Java development.

                                  ~ tekkydave ~
                                  D-Bot: 300x300mm | Duet WiFi + Duex2 | 3 independent z motors | X,Y & Z linear rails | E3D Titan Aero + V6 | Precision Piezo z-probe
                                  FreeCAD, PrusaSlicer

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                                  • Danalundefined
                                    Danal
                                    last edited by

                                    @tekkydave said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

                                    I admit I have "borrowed" a few ideas from your program

                                    The great architectural principle of "reuse". Cool!

                                    Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                                    • Adrian52undefined
                                      Adrian52
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks very much for this. I got the program working, but the pause doesn't seem to work properly for me. I get multiple pauses on a single layer. My bed. g moves the head out of the way, so I don't have a movehead command. Using duet2 WiFi, delta, rrf3. 01rc9

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                                      • Danalundefined
                                        Danal @Adrian52
                                        last edited by

                                        @Adrian52 said in DuetLapse available for Alpha testing:

                                        Thanks very much for this. I got the program working, but the pause doesn't seem to work properly for me. I get multiple pauses on a single layer. My bed. g moves the head out of the way, so I don't have a movehead command. Using duet2 WiFi, delta, rrf3. 01rc9

                                        Can you post your command line that you are using to invoke?

                                        Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                                        • Adrian52undefined
                                          Adrian52 @Danal
                                          last edited by

                                          @Danal I used . /DuetLapse -duet 192.168.1.16 -camera pi -pause yes If I leave out the pause it works fine. Not sure why I said bed.g of course I meant pause.g, which contains a z as well as x and y moves.

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                                          • Danalundefined
                                            Danal
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks, I will take a look.

                                            Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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