PiBooth

[Christian James-Watkins]

I'm trying to write a photo booth script, at the moment I have ncftp and gPhoto2 installed on the Pi. The idea is that the Pi will take a photograph, overlay the watermark and upload it to my server but I have a few problems and questions for anyone who can help.

Can anyone help me with line 17 and 21? Also how would I get the photograph names to be unique? At the moment you have to run ./booth to get the file to run, is there a way to loop the program so you just have to hit enter?

1. #!/bin/bash
   
2. # booth - version 0.1
   
3. # Requires: gphoto2, ncftp
   
4. # Author: Christian James-Watkins <in...@cjphotography.tk>
   
5. # http://www.cjphotography.tk/docs/.booth
   
6. # License: GPLv3 CJ Photography
   
7. 
   
8. # change to directory
   
9. cd Desktop
   
10. cd booth
    
11. 
    
12. # take photograph
    
13. gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download
    
14. 
    
15. # watermark image # small one in corner preferred
    
16. for pic in *.jpg; do
    
17.     composite -dissolve 30% -gravity south ${pic//.jpg}-marked.jpg $pic LogoW.png
    
18. done
    
19. 
    
20. # upload file
    
21. ncftpput -u user -p password ftp.server.tk /public_html/booth /Desktop/booth/*.jpg
    
22. 
    
23. # remove file
    
24. rm -r *.jpg
    

Here is the output I am getting at the moment

1. New file is in location /capt0000.jpg on the camera
   
2. Saving file as capt0000.jpg
   
3. Deleting file /capt0000.jpg on the camera
   
4. Deleting 'capt0000.jpg' from folder '/'...
   
5. ./booth: line 17: composite: command not found
   
6. Cannot open local file /Desktop/booth/*.jpg for reading: No such file or directory.
   
7. ncftpput /Desktop/booth/*.jpg: could not open file.
   

As you can see /Desktop/booth/ exists as that is the directory the image is being saved to, I have tried troubleshooting by removing line 20 and the images do save there. Sorry for all the questions but any help you can provide would be so helpful!

[Paul MJ Stone]

can you run 'composite' from the command line? does it need installing?

is gphoto2 deleting the image file?

[Paul Brown]

http://smstextblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/night-time-wildlife-cam.html that's how I did mine basically it's the same for what you want.