Count printed pictures

[danielovic295]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be nice to have a counter which shows me the amounts of printed pictures. As me and many other use a DNP printer, which has no display showing the remaining possible prints on the paper roll, you always run into danger, that the roll with go empty while having an event.

Describe the solution you'd like
A simple counter, maybe in the admin page (has to be resettable).

Describe alternatives you've considered
I always took the amount of files in the /data/print/ directory, but on that way I can't count the prints which got printed several times.

Additional context
A possible solution could be to count the executions of the print.php file, but myself is not able to code something like that.

[flighter18]

HI @danielovic295

I did something simalery. My goal was a webpage with all the photobooth statistics. This is the result:

Main page

All taked Photos

I use a PHP API and modified the takePic.php and print.php file. Now every time someone prints a picture or makes a photo a curl request will be send to my server. My server takes the request iand saves them in a Database. Finally my website evaluate the database and shows all the metrics in a nice way.

maybe that's a little over the top but let me know, if you want more infos. 😄

[danielovic295]

Hi @flighter18,

this is brilliant, but for the live monitoring there is connection to the internet required, isn't it?

Besides that, I think I am not able to implement that into my system.

What resources do you need for that system?

But I think it is not absolutey necessary to have a live monitoring (but it's very nice tho :D), a simply offline tracking would be absolutely sufficient.

BR,
danielovic

[andi34]

Here's an example how to implement a counter:
ab6cc50#diff-1463ee9d4350b7e153b2bf7b62a8f151

[flighter18]

Hi @flighter18,

this is brilliant, but for the live monitoring there is connection to the internet required, isn't it?

Besides that, I think I am not able to implement that into my system.

What resources do you need for that system?

But I think it is not absolutey necessary to have a live monitoring (but it's very nice tho :D), a simply offline tracking would be absolutely sufficient.

BR,
danielovic

Actually you don't need an internet connection. you could do it on the photobooth hardware.
The only resource you additional need is a Database.

maybe you could tryout andi34's implementation. 😄

[andi34]

It's not my implementation, but a hint on how it could work and how it could be implemented.

[flighter18]

@andi34 sorry for the misunderstanding

[flacoonb]

Hi @flighter18
that's exactly what I'm looking for. Looks great! Can you provide your code?
Thank you very much.

[flighter18]

hi @flacoonb

You will find the code here:
https://github.com/flighter18/photobooth-buzzer-led

[flacoonb]

thx @flighter18
but the link is for buzzer and not for the count printed pictures?

[flighter18]

@flacoonb

ou sorry wrong theme :)
currently the code isn't on any git repo. 😃

But if you're so interested then i can create a repo this weekend. :)

[flacoonb]

😉 @flighter18
all right, that would be great! I'm sure there are even more interested.
Thanks a lot already!

[flacoonb]

@flighter18
what about the repo? Thx

[flighter18]

@flacoonb
https://github.com/flighter18/photobooth-statistic