Dtyjlui

I would be very grateful for some guidance on the following script. You will see that I have very little experience (3 days!).

Using the pantilthat servo control, I am taking a image (jpg) at various camera positions. This is in a continuous loop that will be run during daylight hours.

I am trying to save the images like so, 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg..... 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg.... etc etc

The code works, but I just cant figure out the file naming part.
Thank you for looking and any improvents gratefully received.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pantilthat

import time

import picamera

x = 0

while x < 9:

        print "Take Photo"

        with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:

                camera.resolution = (1024, 768)

                camera.start_preview()

                camera.annotate_text = 'Picture Taken with Raspberry camera'

                time.sleep(2)

                for filename in camera.record_sequence(

                'image%02d.jpg' % i for i in range(1)):

                        print('Saving to %s' % filename)

                camera.stop_preview()

                print('Done')

        x += 1

        if x == 1:

                print("1")

                pantilthat.pan(30)

                pantilthat.tilt(-10)

                time.sleep(1)

        elif x == 2:

                print("2")

                pantilthat.pan(20)

                pantilthat.tilt(0)

                time.sleep(1)

         elif x == 3:

                pantilthat.pan(10)

                pantilthat.tilt(10)

                print("3")

                time.sleep(1)

        elif x == 4:

                pantilthat.pan(0)

                pantilthat.tilt(-10)

                print("4")

                time.sleep(1)

        elif x == 5:

                pantilthat.pan(-10)

                pantilthat.tilt(10)

                print("5")

                time.sleep(1)

        elif x == 6:

                pantilthat.pan(-20)

                pantilthat.tilt(-20)

                print("6")

                time.sleep(1)

       elif x == 7:

                pantilthat.pan(-30)

                pantilthat.tilt(20)

                print("7")

                time.sleep(1)

                x=0

        else:

                pass

How about something like the following.

I'm using a list to store your pan and tilt values and capturing 1 image on each loop. Simply concatenating the string value of i onto 'image' followed by .'jpg' to create the image name.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import pantilthat,time,picamera



panTilt = [[ 30, -10],

           [ 20,   0],

           [ 10,  10],

           [  0, -10],

           [-10,  10],

           [-20, -20],

           [-30,  20],

           [  0,   0]]



camera=picamera.PiCamera()

camera.resolution = (1024, 768)

camera.annotate_text = 'Picture Taken with Raspberry camera'



for i,(pan,tilt) in enumerate(panTilt):

    print("Take Photo")

    camera.capture('image'+str(i)+'.jpg')

    print(i,pan,tilt)

    pantilthat.pan(pan)

    pantilthat.tilt(tilt)

    time.sleep(1)



camera.close()