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@@ -2,12 +2,18 @@ #this script repeatedly captures images from a video device (e.g. /dev/video0) at regular intervals #and it compresses images into an .tar.gz after some number and deletes those images #and it deletes old archives after some number have been made +#you can provide a directory in which to save the images if desired MAX_SIZE=1073741824 #1G in bytes TIME_INTERVAL=15 #seconds between taking snapshots THRESHOLD_ARCHIVE=5760 #number of images after which archiving should be done. 5760 is one day if pics are every 15s THRESHOLD_REMOVE=30 #number of image archive tarballs after which a handful of the oldest archives will be deleted +#set the working directory +if [[ ${1} && -d ${1} ]]; then + cd ${1} +fi + while [[ true ]]; do d=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` snapshot ${d}.png |