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This was a success at the wedding!
But here are a few things I would change:

• do all processing in background in different threads. People wanted to see the pictures quickly, and take lots at once. So uploading to twitter etc. was not as important.
• use higher res pictures, resizing for gif. Doing processing in background means we can save highest res jpgs
• turn off all LEDs during capture?
• timeout on upload? pi was freeze during very slow upload to twitter. I couldnt seem to find a timeout setting in twython. again, this matters less if uploading in separate process in background

Hi there!
I have a 'start' button with a LED embedded. I believe in your setup there wasn't. I'm trying to make that button on when idle and off when in proces. I tried to edit the photobooth.py, but this is litterly my first attempt in writing/editting python, so probably i'm overseeing something very simple.

Could you tell me how to add this funciton, or review my code to see what i did wrong?
thanks a milion in advance!!!

ps
Here is my attempt: https://github.com/iroQuai/Gifmenger/edit/master/photobooth.py
what i did was

• I added idle_led_pin = 12 # under "GPIO Config"
• copied and editted a line under functions 'def led_init()', 'def led_all_off' and 'def led_all_on'
• added 'GPIO.output(idle_led_pin, True)' "def start_photobooth(self):" (just above step 1)
• added 'GPIO.output(idle_led_pin, False)' just below the beginning of step 1...

Do you have a wiring diagram available maybe? Although most forks still depend on the original wiring of drumminhands_photobooth, this one is different. One LED less, and different functions for each LED?

Hope you can help me!

Made last minute changes, still only on SD card on pi

Although the config file still asks for the oath-keys for tumblr, it seems like you've removed this functionality completely in the main code... am i right, or am i missing something? And second: is it difficult to put this back in for a coding noob like me? Since youve edited quite a lot, i guess it probably isn't as simple as just copy-pasting the tumblr-part of the original code?