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Describe the solution you'd like
Include a site identifier in the saved data. The best case scenario is a (lat, long) for the site, but this is not feasible with the current hardware.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Raspberry Pi unit identifier
• IP address based location ID
• GUI interface for user to type in site info (shudder)

Additional context
Suggestion from @Eli-S-Bridge via email

Describe the solution you'd like
An enhancement which automatically zooms the moon to maximize screen area.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Maybe just a little guide for the user in the GUI would be fine here

Additional context
Suggestion from @Eli-S-Bridge via email
This may not be possible with raspivid toolchain without quantized zoom levels or quality loss.

Describe the bug
The MMAL protections fail too often. During a night of work, the program exited four times with MMAL error codes.

Expected behavior
Ideally the MMAL protections should catch the error and properly start the camera each time.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Raspbian]
• Version [e.g. 10 or Buster (check output of cat /etc/os-release)]

Describe the bug
Moon centering is not aggressive enough, leading to the moon constantly on the edge of the screen.

Expected behavior
The moon should barely ever touch the edge.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Raspbian]
• Version [e.g. 10 or Buster (check output of cat /etc/os-release)]

Describe the solution you'd like
Change Unix timestamps to YYYYMMDDHHmmss

Additional context
Suggestion from @Eli-S-Bridge via email

Describe the bug
The screenshot naively sizes the window area of interest based on the screen size, but this fails to account for the window limitations of the Raspberry Pi camera (16:9 resolution). If the computer screen is not 16:9 or if there is a rounding error, the screenshot area calculation will capture the wrong part of the screen, e.g. a 1px wide gap on the left and right sides of the area of interest.

Expected behavior
This calculation must be exact to prevent incorrect moon targeting.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Raspbian]
• Version [e.g. 10 or Buster (check output of cat /etc/os-release)]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Some users may experience failure to write files due to improper mounting or drive permissions. Currently, the code detects a mounted drive with the correct path, and crashes with an error on failure. This is not enough if there is a directory pointing nowhere (in the case of improper drive unmounting and remounting) or if the drive has strange permissions.

Describe the solution you'd like
On startup, the code should write a temporary file to the FILEPATH (this line here) and attempt to read it. What's more, this check must determine if the file is being read from a location on the thumb drive or somewhere dynamicallly linked on the SD card. Writing video to the SD card == bad.