Actions and Trigger¶

The photobooth-app offers different modes to capture:

• Single images,
• Collages,
• Animations,
• Videos and
• Multicamera 3d-wigglegrams.

Each action can be triggered by one or more of the following triggers:

• touch buttons on the main screen of the webapp (frontpage),
• GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi,
• keyboard input or
• via your custom solution that calls the Rest-API.

Actions¶

Single Images¶

Single images are captured stills in one shot.

The image can be modified, eg. add a new frame on top of the image and some custom text like in the example below. Also, the background can be removed using an AI algorithm and replace it by an image.

Collages¶

Collages are compiled from several images. These can mix of captured images from the camera and predefined images. Each capture can be modified, eg. remove the background and add fill it with a solid color before merging it in the collage. Following is an example how the collage is processed.

Animations (GIF)¶

Similar as collages but the images are not stitched into one image but being played as a sequence of images with a certain duration per image. It's also possible to use predefined images that are embedded in every animation instead a capture. You can apply a frame and add texts to the final image as well as a color-filter similar like Instagram.

Videos¶

Videos (no sound unfortunately, yet) can be captured from the livestream. After capture there is an option to generate a boomerang effect video.

Multicamera 3D Wigglegrams¶

This very unique feature allows to capture a scene from multiple cameras at the same time. The result is a wigglegram, see the separate section for more details.

Trigger¶

Touch buttons on the screen¶

To display a trigger button on the main screen of the app, define in the trigger section of an action a title and/or an icon. The icon can be any material design icon.

GPIO¶

To trigger an action via GPIO define the pin and choose when to trigger the action (on press, on release or after hold).

See the GPIO section how to wire the buttons.

Keyboard¶

To trigger an action via keypress define the keycode. If you're unsure what keycode to use, open the browser console and press the key to check for the keycode. The keycodes are captured by the browser.

Questions remain?¶

Reach out in a discussion.