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Possibility to lock device or at least blacken the screen during long timelapses

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Meelis Saluvee

Would be good if the camera and screen can be turned off between single captures for eg lapses where a frame is captured every 5 minutes or longer time interval. It will help to save battery.

December 17, 2023

Noah

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Noah

Hello Meelis, thank you for your request.
You can shut off the device screen to preserve battery and the timelapse capture will continue to take pictures. 
Did you know that this feature existed or was your request referring to something else?

Meelis Saluvee

Hi Noah, thanks for the quick reply. I made some tests, found out that the capturing continues until about 1 minute after screen locking (6 frames at 10-seconds rate, 12 images at 5-second rate, but 0 frames at 1min-10sec rate). Maybe it is some security or battery optimization feature of the Android itself? My phone is Samsung A52s, Android OS ver 13

Noah

Meelis Saluvee: Thank you for the response. I've done a few tests and I believe I've replicated the problem. I'm not sure if this is a regression but I'm going to do some tests with older versions of Velocity Lapse and see. 
You might be right about it being something with Android itself so I'll do some tests for that possibility as well.
Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.

Noah

Meelis Saluvee: I've fixed the issue and it will be working in the next update. (It was indeed a regression).

Do you think that a black screen/lock screen is still necessary? Just wondering in case there are any other use-cases I haven't thought about.

Meelis Saluvee

Noah: Great news, will wait!

And no, if the capturing works with locked phone then all good - it will prevent unexpected clicks, too.

Noah

Meelis Saluvee: Okay, thank you again for your feedback.