Run by cron

[MateoLostanlen]

This script allows to capture an image every 30s on the pi zero and send it to the central pi

For the moment it is launched in background using python3 /home/pi/pi_zeros/runner.py & but it is not very stable

I suggest to use a crontab instead which will launch a loop of two captures every minute:

*/1 * * * * python3 /home/pi/pi_zeros/runner.py --max_iteration 2

[fe51]

Hi, thanks for the PR !

How did you spot the instability of the current process? In any case, the proposed approach via a crontab sounds good to me !

I have juste made some naming suggestion. If for variable naming suggestion, it is open to discussion (name might be too long now haha, or a comment to make it clear it is about seconds ?), I think it's good to specify the time unit in the parser desc.

[MateoLostanlen]

Hi @fe51, thanks for your comments. Yes you are right it's better to specify time unit. I've made the change

I don't really know why the background task it's unstable but I notice that after a while the process stop :/

[fe51]

Cool, thanks fo the quick updates !

In fact, it occured to me that I had also seen on forums that it was perhaps not stable..
who knows why !
I do not know why, but as long as you've experienced that it's not stable, and regular short job cron runs seem to be more robust, let’s go for it !

[MateoLostanlen]

I'm closing this PR, let's use #74 instead