civic epoch
Not sure if this is the best place or automations.
I’ve been trying to integrate my Ring Pro 2 doorbell with LLM Vision (via HACS) to analyze snapshots, but I’ve hit a frustrating roadblock: the snapshots are not live.
🚨 Issue:
• The snapshots are randomly delayed—sometimes 30 seconds, sometimes 15 minutes or more.
• I tested this by setting up a stopwatch on an iPad in the camera view, and every snapshot is a stale image, not a real-time frame.
• I noticed that when the camera is idle, it just shows an old frame. But if I manually press “Play” in the camera feed, it goes truly live.
⚙️ Things I’ve Tried:
âś… Taking snapshots from all 3 available Ring feeds:
• Live feed, last motion, last snapshot → 2 of them produce the same outdated image, and the third is way behind.
✅ Tied automation and snapshot to motion detection → No improvement.
✅ Added a service call to reload all integrations before capturing → No luck.
✅ Tried camera.turn_off and camera.turn_on → But Ring doesn’t support these services.
✅ Experimented with different delay times (up to 60 sec) before taking the snapshot → Still inconsistent.
đź› What I Need Help With:
Has anyone successfully gotten real-time snapshots from a Ring Pro 2 in Home Assistant?
🔹 Is there a way to force the camera to “press play” before taking the snapshot?
🔹 Any tricks to refresh the feed properly before capturing the image?
🔹 Could there be an alternative approach I’m missing?
Been at this for hours, and it’s got me stumped. Any ideas? Appreciate any insight! 🙌
zealous ferry