Bootup script Setup #

Edit Python script, add as first line - #!/usr/bin/python

Change permissions - chmod 755 raspiLapseCam.py

That means you can execute it by typing raspiLapseCam.py rather than python raspiLapseCam.py

Then we can use an /etc/init.d script to get it started when the system boots.

Start by copying /etc/init.d/skeleton to /etc/init.d/timelapse - cd /etc/init.d && sudo cp skeleton timelapse

edit /etc/init.d/timelapse, change lines 23 & 24 to refer to the command ‘/home/pi/raspiLapseCam.py’ -

DAEMON=/home/pi/raspiLapseCam.py```

Make it executable -
```sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/timelapse```

gets it started at system boot and killed at shutdown -
```sudo update-rc.d timelapse enable```