Animated gifs from motion detection stills for HA

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Funny I was looking at some like this as well. I basically created the same thing but taking the jpg and creating a GIF so I can display in card in HA. (converts to png and then to gif, as I was having an issue with the jpeg file). It runs every 30 minutes currently. Be kind it’s my first go at this.
I used Appdaemon to do so. Below is the setup if you are interested. Below is the conifg for Appdaemon.

{
“disable_auto_token”: false,
“system_packages”: [
“libcurl”,
“zlib-dev”,
“libjpeg”,
“libwebp”,
“libjpeg-turbo”,
“tk”,
“tiff-dev”,
“openjpeg”,
“python3-dev”,
“curl-dev”,
“gcc”,
“g++”
],
“python_packages”: [
“imageio”,
“Image”
]
}

And then updated the apps.yaml file and created a save_gif.py file.
apps.yaml

save_gif:
module: save_gif
class: Savegif

save_gif.py

import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
import os
import imageio
import shutil
import datetime
import glob
import time
from stat import S_ISREG, ST_CTIME, ST_MODE
from PIL import Image

class Savegif(hass.Hass):

def initialize(self):

  self.run_daily_c()

def run_daily_c(self):

   # Waits for 30 minutes
   time.sleep(1800)

   self.png_dir = '/config/www/deepstack_person_images/'
   self.png_dir1 = '/config/www/png/'
   self.images = []

   # Deletes old files from copied folder
   for file in os.scandir(self.png_dir1):
       if file.name.endswith(".PNG"):
            os.unlink(file)

    # Sorts by file name
    for self.file_name in sorted(os.listdir(self.png_dir)):
        
        # Copies jpg to new folder and converts to png
        if not self.file_name.startswith("."):
            self.file_path = os.path.join(self.png_dir, self.file_name)
            self.filename1 = os.path.splitext(self.file_name)[0] 
            self.file_path1 = os.path.join(self.png_dir1, self.filename1 + '.PNG')
            print (self.file_path)
            print (self.file_path1)
            self.im = Image.open(self.file_path)
            self.im.save(self.file_path1, "PNG")
            self.images.append(imageio.imread(self.file_path1,'.PNG'))
    
    # Creates gif file
    imageio.mimsave('/config/www/output.gif',self.images,fps=.6)

    # Deletes png files again
    for file in os.scandir(self.png_dir1):
        if file.name.endswith(".PNG"):
            os.unlink(file)
    while True:    
        self.initialize()