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Show HN: Linux Webcam Automation (github.com/thegrims)
7 points by aidangrimshaw on April 26, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This looks nice, and especially attractive because it only uses bash and ffmpeg, avoiding unnecessary dependencies. I have to wonder about this though:

> When Ctrl+C is pressed, the operating system sends a SIGINT signal to the control script, which transfers to a signal handler function. The signal handler script makes a new directory with the days time and date, moves all video files to that location, and uploads the new directory and it’s contents to Google Drive.

So the script is run manually, and also interrupted manually? It seems strange because I would expect something like this to happen via cron.




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