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raspistill is the command line tool for capturing still photographs with the camera module. Here you can find the official docs. I want to show you how you can set up a cron schedule to take a camera snapshot at a desired interval. Requirements a Raspberry Pi Camera Module or any other model should be fine a Raspberry Pi About cron cron enables you to set time-based jobs on a Unix OS. In this example, the script /home/pi/take-current-snapshot is run every hour (notice the expression 0 * * * ...