Camera Autoplay

I have a Arlo camera included in Home Assistant. Everytime I open Home Assistant I can directly see the live view of the arlo camera. When the live view starts automatically a snapshot will be created. That everything is great.

But now my question. Is it possible to start the live stream of the camera automatically over a Home Assistant flow, I mean everyime at 15:00 so that the snapshot will created without opening the Home Assistant app?

You can use the service camera.snapshot in an automation.

Thanks for your answer. In my case everytime I play the camera, I will automatically get a new image directy on a https://website. The only thing I have to do is to play the camera maybe at 15:00 automatically. Can you give me an example (Print-screen) how this automation should look?

trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "15:00:00"
condition: []
action:
  - service: camera.snapshot
    data:
      filename: xxx #enter path+filename where the image should be saved
    target:
      entity_id: camera.xxx

If you just want the camera to play to trigger something completely else try to use different camera services like:

camera.snapshot
camera.play_stream
camera.record

Maybe one of them does the trick.

Thank you for your answer. With the standard service camera it works. I can also write snapshot files. But the problem I have, the snapshot files are not actual. I mean, it would be great, when this automatisation is running, a new actual snapshot will be created.

But it looks like, the last snapshot is from the time, I last started the play_stream. Is there a change, that everytime this automatisation is running a actual snapshot will be created?

Is it possible to say, that the Play stream only should run for 2 minutes? I only have play_stream not stop_stream.

I tried several things. I understand my snapshot problem now but I don’t know how to fix it.

I play the stream with Home Assistant at 12:00 and then I take a snapshot at 12:05 (kamera take snapshot). The stream works and its also generating a file at 12:05, but its not the newest file. With the automation I dont get the newest file.

When I play the stream manually in the Arlo app or on my Home assistant dashboard, I get a actual snapshot file.

Do you know, why its not working correctly in the automation? With the automation I start the stream on my nest hub media player and this not generating a new snapshot file as I said.