impactoz
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Post by impactoz on Oct 1, 2019 0:11:31 GMT -8
No - in fact the picture looks much clearer - whether that was because of it being a v2.1 Camera....
I thought the same - but the proof in the pictures showed me something different than I expected...
Mind you when I have been looking it has been cloudy days - so just going to have and wait and see...
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impactoz
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Post by impactoz on Oct 1, 2019 15:03:33 GMT -8
Yah - Clear night finally - lots of stars on my OCT 1 video... I think I even caught a plane at one stage (bottom right - saw a white streak) - and some kind of cat / bird on the roof too!
Cant wait to mount this in clear skies soon!
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Post by topher2880 on Oct 1, 2019 16:24:28 GMT -8
Looked like a cat hahaha I think I will see if, over the next couple of days, implement your edited code for the camera and see how it goes on the old v1.3 camera. Im getting the LED pollution again, so need to pull the cam out and find a better solution to covering that annoying red light
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jhcii
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Post by jhcii on Oct 1, 2019 16:44:06 GMT -8
I used a piece of white corrugated plastic to cover behind my camera so light doesn't leak through.
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Post by topher2880 on Oct 3, 2019 4:51:16 GMT -8
Not a bad idea, I now have blue light leaking from one of the boards (left of pic). I will need to put some sort of shield in to stop that
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misky
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Post by misky on Oct 3, 2019 15:30:59 GMT -8
Came across the thread as I was looking to see what I could do with the camera at night and it looks very interesting. I noticed a few complaints about the red power LED. I shut mine off automatically when the system boots up. In /etc/rc.local after the nohup line to start SkyWeather, add:
#Shut off red power led sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/led1/brightness'
And the red LED should bother you no more.
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Post by topher2880 on Oct 3, 2019 15:39:13 GMT -8
Awesome, thanks for that. There is lowpower.sh in the SDL_Pi_SkyWeather folder, but I havent looked at it to see if it runs by itself (called from another script) or if I needed to do something.. but added your line to /etc/rc.local and hoping that solves the red (and maybe blue) led issue... though I think the blue comes from my SunControl board.
With inside temp reaching 40*C yesterday, its only a matter of time before the blutac melts thats covering the cam LED
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misky
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Post by misky on Oct 3, 2019 16:10:36 GMT -8
I didn't notice that script. Looking at it, it looks like it is for the PI Zero, which I think only has one LED for both activity and power since it doesn't have a wired adapter on it. Mine will shut it off on a PI 3, which I suppose I should have said is what I'm using.
Yes, there are blue ones on the Grove GPIO board. They don't show up under /dev/devices so SwitchDoc would have to tell us how to shut those off. <Hint, Hint>
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misky
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Post by misky on Oct 3, 2019 17:06:25 GMT -8
... THAT blue ring, now I understand.
Your parameters work well, a couple of quick suggestions you might want to try. If you're looking for best quality, you may want to set format to png with -e png as that is a lossless compression format. Also, if you set -sa -100, you can skip the conversion to B/W as it should then be in B/W as you've removed all color from the image.
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impactoz
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Post by impactoz on Oct 4, 2019 5:48:47 GMT -8
Will give those suggestions a try next week...
And for LEDS - my solution - works well - bluetack.. big blob of it over every LED ! No light escapes that! and easily removable in case you need to analyse something
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Post by SDL on Oct 6, 2019 16:18:37 GMT -8
misky, You can take an exacto knife and pop them off! However, bluetack works really well and you can remove it to debug! BP
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wbp
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Post by wbp on Oct 14, 2019 16:06:08 GMT -8
Anyway - here is the current code I am using - always experimental.... My complete SkyCamera.py for ya! Have fun
Could you please post this as Code? It's really hard to do much with it the way it is, double spaced, etc. Click on the "C" in the edit bar and paste the code into the resulting box.
Thanks!
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