A script for taking a picture using the Raspberry Pi webcam tool and then using rsync to send those files to a remote server

timercam.sh

#!/bin/bash

# must have fswebcam installed
command -v fswebcam >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
  echo "I require fswebcam but it's not installed. Aborting." >&2; exit 1;
}

# must have rsync installed
command -v rsync >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
  echo "I require rsync but it's not installed. Aborting." >&2; exit 1;
}

echo "Taking photo..."

# timestamp for the new file
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)

# the output path + filename
IMAGENAME="/home/pi/webcam/images/image-$TIMESTAMP.jpg"

# the size of the screenshot to take
fswebcam -r 640x480 --no-banner --save $IMAGENAME

echo "Saved new file at $IMAGENAME"

echo "Starting rsync..."

# src is the local folder with all the images
SRC="/home/pi/webcam/images/"

# destination location on the remote server
DEST="user@somedomain.com:/var/www/html/website/webcam/images/"

# the command to use to move the files
rsync --update --archive --delete --recursive --compress --progress --chown=www-data:www-data --chmod=u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx $SRC $DEST

echo "✔ Complete!"

exit 0