This post is a follow-up from my previous query here: viewtopic.php?t=369523. I started down the rclone rabbit hole and realized I may be over complicating things for myself.
I am a biology PhD student, and I'm going to be undertaking a big germination experiment that will use a raspberry pi and camera module to monitor the seeds germinating everyday.
I figured out how to get the RPi to take a photo, and I'm going to wrap that in a cron routine to have it happen at the same time every day. However I need to be able to check on the photo remotely, to make sure the camera is working and getting a high quality image every day.
What I need to do in the simplest way possible
I really just need a way to get the RPi to upload or send the photo it takes somewhere that I can check in on with my phone. This is because I need to have workable photographs from every day of the experiment, and I don't want to go in every day to pull them off the SD card or SSH them from my laptop. Some sort of cloud or drive seems like the best solution, but I may be overthinking things.
What I have tried
I've been working with rclone to try and figure out how to upload files to [Google Drive](https://rclone.org/drive/), but this seems to mostly be useful for pushing and pulling text-based files to a remote drive as opposed to accessing uploaded files later through Google Drive Browser.
I haven't tried to configure rclone for Google Photos yet, but it seems like there are [limitations](https://rclone.org/googlephotos/) that would prevent me from accessing high-quality copies of these images. I may be misunderstanding this however.
Clarification re: rclone and/or alternative solutions would be greatly appreciated!
I am a biology PhD student, and I'm going to be undertaking a big germination experiment that will use a raspberry pi and camera module to monitor the seeds germinating everyday.
I figured out how to get the RPi to take a photo, and I'm going to wrap that in a cron routine to have it happen at the same time every day. However I need to be able to check on the photo remotely, to make sure the camera is working and getting a high quality image every day.
What I need to do in the simplest way possible
I really just need a way to get the RPi to upload or send the photo it takes somewhere that I can check in on with my phone. This is because I need to have workable photographs from every day of the experiment, and I don't want to go in every day to pull them off the SD card or SSH them from my laptop. Some sort of cloud or drive seems like the best solution, but I may be overthinking things.
What I have tried
I've been working with rclone to try and figure out how to upload files to [Google Drive](https://rclone.org/drive/), but this seems to mostly be useful for pushing and pulling text-based files to a remote drive as opposed to accessing uploaded files later through Google Drive Browser.
I haven't tried to configure rclone for Google Photos yet, but it seems like there are [limitations](https://rclone.org/googlephotos/) that would prevent me from accessing high-quality copies of these images. I may be misunderstanding this however.
Clarification re: rclone and/or alternative solutions would be greatly appreciated!
Statistics: Posted by phylojenie — Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:02 pm