Octolapse V0.4 Preview - Episode 3: Fully Integrated Help
Added 2019-07-18 14:05:57 +0000 UTCGetting help has never been easier now that it has been fully integrated within Octolapse. The new system uses markdown and showdown.js to create fully formatted help, all self contained within Octolapse itself.
Version 0.4 Update
Additionally I wanted to give an update on the progress of version 0.4. I'm in the testing phase now, and don't foresee any new features being added.
I found some problems with the new snap-to-print trigger that affected my print quality.
I need to fix all of these before the release else there will be hell to pay :) I believe the issue was a higher than response time while acquiring images from mjpg-streamer. To fix the issue I implemented a streaming download that returns control to Octolapse after getting a response from the server, but before the snapshot download is complete. This cut the time down for acquiring an image from around 200MS to less than 50MS (sometimes as low as 10MS!). It turns out this is all frame rate dependent. The higher your frame rate, the lower the delay. Mine is set to 30FPS at the moment. I'm printing some thumb screws at the moment, which should show any improvements clearly. I'll post an update when I release the next video.
