Camera snapshot interval

Configuration
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I have a unifi protect door bell camera but when I try to capture a snapshot they are up to 5 seconds old. This also means that if I try to capture 3 consecutive images I get the same image if I capture them within this 5 second window. Is there a way to reduce this? I’d like to get a new image every second.

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so i ended up using the anonymous endpoint on the camera instead and using curl within a shell command. i can get images with very high frequency that way. for those interested in how to do this:

get camera password:

  1. open unifi.ui.com and then your Protect tab

  2. hit the settings ‘gear’ on the left icon column

  3. go to ‘system’ (should be below recordings)

  4. then ‘recovery code’ hit reveal and save this value

  5. get your camera ip

  6. connect to http://<camera ip>

  7. login is ubnt/<recovery code from above>

  8. on the ‘configure’ tab select ‘enable anonymous snapshot’

now you’ll be able to get the most recent snapshot from the following endpoint:

http://<camera_ip>/snap.jpeg

this is a decent work around but not a solution imo, it would be nice to fix or improve the built-in snapshot feature but it’s unclear to me where the actual problem is

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