Lapsilapse has been designed to run timelapses and holy grail timelapses on a Raspberry Pi with the official HQ camera and fully controlled via a responsive web interface. It is meant to be run headlessly with no GUI.

It's a tool I've developed for my personal usage so it's still work in progress with known limitations (see below).

Lapsilapse has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB RAM and I haven't yet seen any performance issues.

Timelapse screen:

A not-so-great example that I'll update at some point:

Here's a short description of the "happy flow":

• Install Raspberry Pi OS on a large Micro SD card as curently Lapsilapse doesn't support external drives.
• Connect your Pi to a network, or set the Pi as a hotspot.
• Set up Lapsilapse (see below).
• Start Lapsilapse.
• The Preview page allows to focus the lens.
• The Timelapse page sets the timelapse and allows to follow its progress.

Lapsilapse still has a lot of limitations that will be taken care of at some point:

• Can't use an external drive for storing the timelapse's files.
• The Shoot page, which allows taking single photos, is not fully developed yet e.g. settings are not effective.

I already have a list of evolutions to implement:

• Allow to change basic settings in Preview mode.
• Finish the Shoot page. DONE!
• Have the possibility to use external drives. 2024-06-05 - DONE!
• Improve the Holy Grail process - the current system is a very first version, that needs to be enhanced.
• Run on a prod ready server e.g. gunicorn. 2024-07-11 - DONE !

To setup Lapsilapse:

• Clone this repo
• Create a venv with python -m venv .venv
• Activate the venv with . .venv/bin/activate
• Run python -m pip install -r requirements.txt to install the dependencies.
• Run the server with ./start.sh

MIT License.