Hi,
Is it possible to change the refresh rate for the ‘auto’ camera view? When I set the camera view to ‘auto’ the picture is refreshed every 10 seconds, but I want to have a refresh every 5 seconds.
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Hoof
July 28, 2022, 1:21am
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I am also looking for this exact same thing. 10 seconds is just too long and ‘live’ will consume too much bandwidth and CPU.
c4pete
August 17, 2022, 7:42pm
4
Yep, I’m also interested in this.
rharvey1
January 13, 2023, 1:28pm
6
I have 5 outdoor POE camera’s around my house and in a number of dashboards I display anywhere from 3 to 5 of them in one dashboard view. What I have landed on is to do the 10 second refresh on all the cameras that are not as important and do the live option on ONLY the screens camera’s thet are most important, like the main front driveway view.
DrewW
April 17, 2023, 9:38pm
7
Looks like I’m doing a me too on this. I agree that 10 seconds is to long and I have to many cameras to want a live view for all of them.
catboxer
June 12, 2023, 3:19pm
8
Bumping this up in case anyone has found a solution. Would like to see them refresh maybe every 1-3 seconds.
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There is a PR on GitHub where a user actually implemented this.
In my opinion, it would be fine to allow the option with a warning to the user to be careful.
home-assistant:dev ← kkellner:dev
opened 12:32AM - 06 Apr 20 UTC
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The hui-image used in picture-entity card has a hard-coded refresh rate of 10 seconds. To provide more flexibility in the image refresh rate a new user-configurable attribute has been added to the picture-entity card.
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For `picture-entity` card add a `refresh_rate` property. This is optional and defaults to the original behavior of 10 seconds if the attribute is not defined.
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aspect_ratio: 70%
entity: camera.blueiris_cam24
show_name: false
show_state: false
type: picture-entity
refresh_rate: 2
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jlipsit
January 3, 2024, 1:41pm
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I came here looking for the same solution. I’m surprised the developers did not adopt adding refresh rate to the picture card. A warning would be perfectly acceptable. The current state of the picture card is near useless. Live is unusable and a 10 second delay is an eternity when you are waiting to see a motion picture. Feel like I’m watching a Webcam from 1995. I surely hope the developers reconsider this implementation.
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bakast
August 4, 2024, 8:07pm
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Me too.
fahlsen
August 18, 2024, 3:24pm
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So they leave us with an option to set it to live and enable preloading, witch together will overload HA for sure. Someone needs to rethink this
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