Better understanding snapshot camera

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hello, I’m trying to catch some snapshot from a Dahua cam which is registered in motionEye.
I can see the entity in HA correctly.
So I tried to use Nodered to take a snapshot but it doesn’t work. The service node tell “sending” and stucks in that way.
A couple of question:
Where the file is saved? Is it a local path of the camera SSD card or a HA directory?

Thanks

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The camera.snapshot call is passed the filename in which to store the image - in your case it looks like you’ve got this set to “/tmp/snapshots/snapshot.jpg”. Getting it out of there might be tricky, so you’d be better off writing it to “/media/snapshot.jpg”, so you can see it under “Media”.

Having said that, I have Eufy cameras, and for them I have to first call camera.turn_on followed by a short delay, or the snapshot does nothing. Then I wait 5 seconds and call camera.turn_off.