jdemaeyer/ice

ice's Issues

Web interface

It would be cool if ICE had a web interface that could be used to enter configuration, start/stop/pause jobs, and provide information during the job (e.g. time remaining, or the last downloaded picture with #1)

Helpers for capture timestamp generation

ICE takes pictures at given timestamps. The user has to provide a list with these timestamps, e.g. [0, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000].

ICE should have helpers to create these lists. E.g.

>>> make_timestamps("4@250ms, 2@2fps")
[0, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 1500]

Download images from SD card

ICE should have functionality to download images from the SD card. When there is a longer pause in a timeline, we could then download previously captured images.

This would be useful for a "somewhat live view" (showing the most recent image, e.g. in a web interface), and could also ease requirements towards SD cards for very long time series.

Alternatively (or additionally), we could make it available to not write images to the SD card, but directly download them via USB. This would make ICE's flexible timing (without the high frame rate feature) available to users that don't want to save images to an SD card (e.g. because they don't need high frame rates).

Video recording

A lot of people on Fassberg use DSLRs for video recording from microscopes. It would be cool to allow video recording through ICE and also shouldn't be too hard due to libgphoto's awesomeness!

Could it be possible to switch between taking videos and taking time lapses without having to touch the camera knob?

Live view

Could me make live view available? E.g. in a GTK window. Could time lapse recordings and live view be combined, such that we see live view in between time lapse shots?