Time-lapse recording of house construction

I would like to document our new building construction as a time-lapse video. We already have a house in the immediate neighboring area, so a location for the camera including a permanent power connection and LAN/internet would not be a problem (there is also a garden shed directly on the new building plot). The technology, except for the camera itself, would therefore be kept warm and dry.

It is a classic solid construction over several months, i.e., not a prefab house that is built in two days. So I would like a solution that can be paused in between when nothing is likely to happen (remotely controllable?). In theory, I anticipate recording on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., excluding weekends. If I generously assume 40 weeks of 5 days and 13 hours each and calculate with one photo every 5 minutes and ultimately 25 frames per second, I would end up with a video of just under 20 minutes. Of course, this is all very variable and certainly overestimated due to pauses on the construction site. 10 minutes in the end would be quite nice.

Now the question about the technology and software... I have various 3B+ Raspberry Pis, an older Synology DS213 NAS, various outdoor IP cameras from Hikvision and Axis, as well as some external USB SSD drives lying unused. Can something be made out of that? I would not be opposed to further hardware purchases if it is worthwhile. I am googling in parallel, but so far the super great solution has not come up to me.

We would of course inform the construction companies and obtain their approval, other neighbors or public streets would not be affected by the recording. So we do not necessarily have to discuss that, I am aware of the legal situation.

Has anyone here by chance done something like this before or have ideas about it? , , ?

IP camera (possibly using Raspberry) to the Surveillance Station of the Synology. Done.

Basically, you can do it with a €100 phone and a time-lapse app. But: you are actually not allowed to – every craftsman, supplier, and other clown must give you their written consent, etc.

But: You are actually not allowed to - every craftsman, supplier and other fool must give you their written consent, etc..

Thank you for the info. Since I am aware of this and do not want to start this discussion, I even underlined the passage in my post

IP camera (possibly via Raspberry) to the Synology Surveillance Station. Done.

Can the Surveillance Station do such intervals and time-of-day recordings out of the box? I will have to check it out in the next few days. Do you possibly have a software recommendation for the Raspberry? In the Hikvision menu, I found an interval-controlled recording, but it would then simply push an image to the NAS continuously, e.g., every 5 minutes. There are obviously no schedules there. You would have to filter afterwards.

Can the Surveillance Station do such intervals and time-dependent recordings out of the box?

Yes. It is quite powerful.

Do you have a software recommendation for the Raspberry, by any chance?

You only need it if your IP/USB cameras do not communicate with the Surveillance Station, or if you want to connect multiple cameras to the Surveillance Station via Wi-Fi. Out of the box, motionEyeOS is a fine solution. With it, you can replace/ supplement functions of the Surveillance Station.

I just set the whole thing up and tried it out. There is even a plugin for the Synology Surveillance Station: "Intelligent Time Lapse." It does exactly what I want. Including calendar scheduling of recordings and automatic video creation.

That was quick, but maybe it will help others