How can I make my Ring camera take a fresh snapshot through Home Assistant

Hi everyone,

I’m using the Ring integration in Home Assistant, and I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to force my Ring camera to capture a new snapshot on demand.

Right now, when I call the camera.snapshot action (Take Snapshot) on my Ring camera entity, it always saves the same cached still image instead of taking a new one. I understand Ring has some limitations with snapshot frequency, but I’d like to know:

Is there a way to trigger Ring to generate a fresh snapshot (for example, through the live view entity?

Are there workarounds to bypass the cached stills ?

My goal is to use these snapshots and have ChatGPT analyze them. Any advice, examples, or tips would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help.

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