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My use-case probably isn't unique. I have an outdoor webcam at a remote location, I want to upload a picture once an hour, and possibly more on demand. The way to do this now is change Interval to 3600, then configure Snapshot destination. Problem is this seems to break on-demand pictures via snapsh...

Hi drethan So there is no way to trigger a snapshot as soon as the command is sent, it currently will have to wait for the interval to pass? I'm asking because I want to be able to trigger a snapshot for a time lapse I'm making and the time lapse requires very quick reaction times (fraction of secon...

Thanks for your recommendations. Just to be clear, I look at the pictures regularly -- one of the reasons I wanted this setup, not a cheap hunting/game/trail camera. None of the family has ever seen what it looks like there in winter. It does seem like disabling FTP (and for good measure removing th...

I definitely want timed, not trigger. Trigger is based on motion -- this cam is pointed out at the water, there's always motion. Timed is just what the doctor ordered. I absolutely adjusted the interval -- 300 for testing, 3600 normally. Cellular plan doesn't give me a lot of data, although its chea...

I don't have a lab, or any way to test this. The setup is on an island, hanging off a cellular router (which fortunately runs Linux and I have SSH to it). After thinking it through, a couple times, I did a factory reset on the camera. Once it came up, I reset the password, I disabled P2P, configured...

Hi, I'm having an issue with snapshot.cgi. The camera is deployed at a remote site with only cellular, it sends a single picture once an hour (like a cellular trail cam). I do have remote access to it, I can get to the GUI and that works fine but I don't watch live video since that will burn through...

Personally I don't have that info and not sure that can even be done. Not sure really why if your on a Metered connection you would want to use such a high MP camera. Looking at pictures taking from my 2496EW-V2 using curl command from my linux box at this hour each of the pictures are 1.22mb.. I w...

Hi, I have a bullet cam deployed at a remote location (power, but no broadband) connected to a cellular router. My goal is just to get a picture via FTP every couple hours -- I have that set up. No live video, no motion recordings. I also disabled cloud. I did install a micro-SD card because it was ...