Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera

Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by icebraining on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:07AM (#13866273)

On my home server/NAS, I use rtcwake to sleep the computer for a few hours, then wake up, check if there's work to do, then sleep again. I'm not sure if it'd work with a Pi, though, since its hardware is different from a typical motherboard.

Alternatively, you could use something like an Arduino, and connect it in some way to an independent camera. Since it doesn't need to process the picture, you don't need a powerful processor or MBs of RAM.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by makomk on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:50AM (#13866686)

The Raspberry Pi doesn't support power management of any kind. It simply can't go into suspend or soft power-off because it doesn't have the hardware to do it. In theory the C.H.I.P can but I'm not sure if the software support for that feature is there yet.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera by geerlingguy on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:33AM (#13866944)

Check out the Sleepy Pi HAT. It's possible, though more complicated than it would be on a computer with power management options or on an Arduino.

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