Way to reduce camera from spamming weather radar retrieval?

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I finally updated for the first time since the generic camera integration was removed from yaml.

There is a local TV station that auto-updates a perfect weather radar image which I’ve always displayed, but there doesn’t seem to be a good way to do it without spamming the retrieval.

The generic camera integration even warns that poor choices of FPS could cause heavy traffic, but it appears to limit FPS on the low end to 0.1 FPS. Every ten seconds is unnecessarily rapid - I’d like to do 0.001 or so (every ~16 minutes).

The only way I can think to do this is obtuse: set up a shell_command automation to wget the image, then display that as a local_file camera.

How is everyone else doing this?

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I expect it is possible to make a change to the generic camera integration to allow very low frame rates, although I’ve not tried it.

In that case it might make more sense to display the setting as a frame interval in the UI.

Would you be willing to help test it?

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I wouldn’t be opposed to testing something if it was eventually officially supported. Otherwise I’ll likely just stick with the solution I came up with: set up an automation to run every X minutes to retrieve the image via wget.