Hey all,
I’m a giant sucker for time-lapses, so I have two automation set up across my three outdoor nest cameras (two regular, one IQ). Both automations have the cameras take a snapshot and save the snapshot to the media folder. One automation tells the cameras to take the snapshot hourly, one tells it to take it daily at the sun’s zenith.
The IQ camera takes the lowest quality photos - they seem to be about 300x300px and around 36kb. All three cameras also seem to have a chance to just… not write the file at all, leaving a bunch of 0kb jpegs in the media folder.
Any ideas?? I’m really bummed out by this - I haven’t checked back in on them in a month so it’s a pretty big letdown to see that it’s not working.
Code for Hourly Snapshots:
- id: '1619107598390'
alias: Camera - Snapshot - Front Yard - Hourly
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: '29'
condition: []
action:
- service: camera.snapshot
target:
entity_id: camera.front_yard_camera
data:
filename: /media/cameras/front_yard/hourly/frontyard_hourly_{{ now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H%M")
}}.jpg
mode: single
Code for Daily Snapshots:
- id: '1619106744152'
alias: Camera - Snapshot - Front Yard - Daily
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: template
value_template: '{{ is_state_attr(''sun.sun'',''rising'',False) }}'
condition: []
action:
- service: camera.snapshot
target:
entity_id: camera.front_yard_camera
data:
filename: /media/cameras/front_yard/daily/frontyard_daily_{{ now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H%M")
}}.jpg
mode: single
Note: I have all the hourly automation offset by a minute to keep the air clear so not all the cameras are firing at once.