Time lapse camera shots

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I'm going to have a building put up and was thinking I'd like to have one of my cameras take snapshots every hour during daylight hours to record the progress. Is there already a pre-written program out there that can do this (other than BI)?
 

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Is there already a pre-written program out there that can do this
This isn't something I've done myself - maybe I should have a go - but there seem to be various methods from a Google search :
"how to convert ftp images into time-lapse video"
 

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I'm more concerned on how to schedule the shots? Is that something built into the cameras (I have a 2231 and 5231) or is this something I need to script? I was thinking I could merge them with FFMPEG tho. I did find this github that I can probably hack for 2 cameras fairly easily.
 
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If you have a Dahua NVR, according to this link you can set it up in the NVR:
Also, check out IPtimeLapse software, note that I've never used it:
IPTimelapase timelapse camera control software

If you want to write your own script, try out these to see if you can get an image from one of these links:

http://<ip-address>/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?channel=0
http://login:password@<ip-address>/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?channel=0

http://<ip-address>/onvifsnapshot/media_service/snapshot?loginuse=xxxx&loginpass=xxxx

http://<ip-address>:9989/onvif/media_service/snapshot?channel=1&subtype=0
http://login:password@<ip-address>:9989/onvif/media_service/snapshot?channel=1&subtype=0
 
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