Automate Saving of images from the camera for later review

[dasshark]

If someone wanted to insert a "save what the camera sees every N seconds" routine into the pifinder stack (through a fork + PR) where would you like to see this added?

I would like to add:

• config item to the web to set default capture
  • None
  • Timer (seconds)
  • Sky change
• Capture Settings:
  • interval in seconds
  • Sky change Delta of float(RA), Delta of float(Dec)
• console menu to select current image capture mode (default behavior to only be modifiable from the web config)
• console menu to adjust the interval seconds and save to stored config (RA/Dec should probably only be changed in the web config)
• web page area for viewing/downloading/erasing the images.
• a storage folder
• card capacity protection

The solver function is likely the best place to put this so it triggers on a timer always.

from datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()

New dataclass called "last_solve"
- timestamp: datetime = <time of last platesolve>
- RA: float = CurrentSolve.RA
- Dec: float = CurrentSolve.Dec


def TakeNewPhoto:
   imageformat = "PNG"
   NewFileName =  f"{now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H%M%S}_RA-{CurrentSolve.RA}_Dec{CurrentSolve.Dec}.{imageformat.lower()}"
   image.save(NewFileName,imageformat)

if config.imagecapture = interval
   if now - last_solve.timestamp).total_seconds()) > config.ImageCaptureInterval:
      <take a new photo>
elif config.imagecapture = skychange
  import math
  if math.isclose(abs(last_solve.RA), abs(current_solve.RA),rel_tol=config.skychangedelta) || math.isclose(abs(last_solve.Dec), abs(current_solve.Dec),rel_tol=config.skychangedelta):
    <take new photo>