After 7.5 years of waiting, my banana plant is finally flowering! I want to do a time-lapse capture of the flowering and fruiting process. Due to its location, the easiest way for me to get a camera out there is to use a little WyzeCam v3 with the RTSP firmware and the Wyze lamp socket. Unfortunately the WyzeCam doesn’t (yet) have a externally accessible JPG snapshot feature, so I have a cron job set up to:
every hour. The image quality is OK, but not fantastic:
and I'm hoping that I've guessed the angle of growth/droop correctly:
Time will tell! I've been told that the whole flowering and fruiting process could take 6-9 months in Los Angeles. We'll see!
Code:
./ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp:/anonymous:password@$IPAddress/live -frames:v 1 $outfileevery hour. The image quality is OK, but not fantastic:
and I'm hoping that I've guessed the angle of growth/droop correctly:
Time will tell! I've been told that the whole flowering and fruiting process could take 6-9 months in Los Angeles. We'll see!
