# Pi Temporal Camera

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288>\
**Category:** Share Your Projects\
**Created:** [1 January 2019 15:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288 "2019-01-01T15:58:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![WillWelker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/willwelker/32/771_2.png) [@WillWelker](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/WillWelker)\
**Post date:** [1 January 2019 15:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288/1 "2019-01-01T15:58:43Z")

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A camera to watch your plants grow is a little boring. This project creates a time-lapse gif image from the previous day and displays it on your Dashboard.  
Viewing your plants from a shifted time reference gives a whole new perspective.  
 ![pea-shoots](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/3/398252a8e376d6dc50011db0f6536063559fb1b9.gif)

 ![screenshot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/3/3f0d74e954bde82a662431ae5911f692e2137579.png)  
I have the whole project along with instructions up on Github:  

> **[WillWelker/pi-temporal-camera](https://github.com/WillWelker/pi-temporal-camera)**
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> Put a time lapse gif image in your Node Red dashboard to watch your plants grow - WillWelker/pi-temporal-camera

  
This project uses the ffmpeg program to convert a series of images into a gif. A short bash script is called with an exec node to run the process each day or when you have enough images.  
The huge power of exec nodes are used in a few different ways, taking pictures with `raspistill`, counting files in a directory and running a bash script. Even a shutdown button in the UI for when you need to move the camera.  
All the scripts and flows are well commented.

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [1 January 2019 16:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288/2 "2019-01-01T16:10:57Z")

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Very nice!!! Now to find time to incorporate this into my flows...("Love, what did you say?...We're babysitting the grandkids for the rest of the day???") Well there goes my day...😂

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [1 January 2019 16:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288/3 "2019-01-01T16:17:30Z")

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> [@zenofmud](#):
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> babysitting the grandkids

How old are they - maybe time to get them started with Node-RED?!

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**Author:** ![jclark58](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jclark58/32/2215_2.png) [@jclark58](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jclark58)\
**Post date:** [2 January 2019 12:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288/4 "2019-01-02T12:27:21Z")

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Thought you meant you were doing a timelapse of the grandkids 😉

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [2 January 2019 15:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pi-temporal-camera/6288/5 "2019-01-02T15:07:32Z")

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Ha t did that with my phone. I had them move at normal speed and I moved slow. It makes them look like they are rocketing around me