The summary of the fifth week

Summary of Week’s Activities

• Take a photo when the person’s face detected
• Install Dropbox on Raspberry Pi
• Integrate Dropbox API into the code modified in week 4

Problem encountered and solutions

• Camera capture function causes a significant delay.The Dropbox depends on a stable network connection. If the network is unstable, the photo cannot be uploaded. The error information is shown as follows.

Achievement in this week

• We can upload the photos to the cloud on a stable network connection. There are two steps.

  Get Dropbox uploader

  githubclonegithub.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader.git
  ./dropbox_uploader.sh
  

  Use instruction to upload

  from subprocess import call
  Upload = "home/pi/Dropbox_Uploader/dropbox_uploader.sh upload path/to/file dropbox_filename"
  call ([Upload], shell=True)
  

• The results are shown as follow pictures.

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