Take a picture?

[andreasnuesslein]

Hi @bropat, hi all,

first of: thank you for this library :heart_eyes: Very cool, all the effort your pour into this.

My question: has anybody figured out how to trigger this "take a picture" functionality? I would love to take a picture every hour to later glue together a timelapse. But I couldn't find anything in your API.

Did I overlook it? Or is it not something the API actually provides? I thought maybe it was just the Android App actually taking a picture from the rtsp stream but then again it's got 3MP (2304*1296, 2MB) and it doesnt seem to be too dependent on the quality of the actual stream. I might be mistaken of course.

Or even better, take a snapshot and save it onto the Station? Or for that matter: trigger a recording onto the station (without motion happening necessarily) ?

Thanks Andreas

[bropat]

Hi @andreasnuesslein ,

thank you very much ;)

The "take a screenshot" functionality is only offered in the app during the live stream, as the screenshot is taken from the video footage. In this specific case, it was not implemented in the library. Of course, you can start the livestream with the library and take a screenshot from the livestream with ffmpeg.

Or even better, take a snapshot and save it onto the Station? Or for that matter: trigger a recording onto the station (without motion happening necessarily) ?

Unfortunately, this is not possible.

[andreasnuesslein]

ah shoot, forgot to answer.

Thank you for your response. Yeah I was looking into the ffmpeg-solution too. Only for some reason more often than not ffmpeg won't grab the stream correctly. I'll keep diggin there a bit.

Thanks again

[schliemann]

Hi @bropat,

I'm curios about the snapshot which is supported in the homekit(apple) integration for the cameras. Every 10 seconds it makes a new snapshot. Do you think this is done by livestreaming or some other means?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10818044/149019768-90eec364-d4f5-4f76-b255-b1da1d79f774.MOV

[fullphat]

If it helps, this is how the ffmpeg HomeBridge plugin does it:

[1/11/2022, 9:17:21 PM] [Camera FFmpeg] [Ext Front Doorbell] Snapshot command: /usr/local/lib/node modules/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg/node modules/ffmpeg-for-homebridge/ffmpeg
-i rtsp://192.168.2.2/live0 -frames:v 1 -f image2
- -hide_banner -loglevel error

Not sure if the RTSP url could be replaced with the socket detail?

[bropat]

Do you think this is done by livestreaming or some other means?

I don't know. Is this functionality also offered for cameras with battery? It could be that Eufy has implemented a special function in the firmware that Homekit accesses.

[schliemann]

@bropat

HomeKit is available on Indoor Cam Pan&Tilt 2K, Indoor Cam 2K, eufyCam 2/2 Pro, and eufyCam 2C/2C Pro connected to eufy HomeBase 2. So I guess it is facilitated through the homebase.