Naming photos sequentially [SOLVED]

[brownstein]

Hello,

Just bought the app and already love it!

I setup a custom widget to take a photo without opening the app (Take picture) and I picked my storage/extsdcard/DCIM/Camera/quickpic.jpg as the file name, however there may be instances where I will snap multiple photos at once. Right now my widget will just keep overwriting the pic.

What option (variable?) can i put in there to add photos to the folder with a sequential naming convention so that they don't just overwrite each other?

Thanks.

[brownstein]

Figured it out. I used the info from this post http://automagic4android.com/forum/view ... name#p3617

Hi,

You can use the variable triggertime and the dateformat option to create the filename.
For example:
screencap -p /mnt/sdcard/Screenshot_{triggertime,dateformat,yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}.png

Regards,
Martin

[evebrea]

can you post the flow for others to use? I'm trying to make a security flow where if i send my phone a specific message by SMS it locks it down and starts taking pictures (which dropsync will upload) but i, like you, found the issue of the "take picture" action just overwriting the same picture. So, mind posting what you got so someone else can use it?

[evebrea]

Figured it out. I used the info from this post http://automagic4android.com/forum/view ... name#p3617

Hi,

You can use the variable triggertime and the dateformat option to create the filename.
For example:
screencap -p /mnt/sdcard/Screenshot_{triggertime,dateformat,yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss}.png

Regards,
Martin

can you post the flow for others to use? I'm trying to make a security flow where if i send my phone a specific message by SMS it locks it down and starts taking pictures (which dropsync will upload) but i, like you, found the issue of the "take picture" action just overwriting the same picture. So, mind posting what you got so someone else can use it?