Iframe device won't refresh picture from ip camera.

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trying the following:

I have an ipcam that delivers a rtsp stream and a jpeg snapshot as basic http command.
this cannot be used with the ipcamera plugin since this plugin wants mjpeg. the camera does not (or at least I don’t know how) support this.

So I tried using the iframe device to see a snapshot of my camera. this works but the picture only updates once.
and that is when the pi reboots.

after that the iframe device seems to be getting the picture from cache and since only the picture itself changes the iframe device doesn’t update with the new picture.

when I use the same url in any browser the picture updates when I refresh the page.

Tried the reload option but it didn’t work.

Any clues?

@djmvt Do a search on iframe and refresh on this forum, there is a trick for it.

Alternatively do a search on https://www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx for your camera model and see if there is a CGI URL available…

the url used to call the snapshot from the camera is: http://myipadress.com:80/webcapture.jpg?command=snap&channel=0

tried the date trick with the shellsensor but I guess I am iplementing this wrong.
Looked at the iSpy connect site but so far none of the cgi seems to work.

The ip cam is a no brand device with no support at all and my knowledge to get this going is simply not on par with everybody here on the forum.

too bad for me, gonna have to do without the cam then, hope someone will implement rtsp so I can add the camera as ipcam device.

thank you guys for your help!

It’s working

not with the date shellsensor, couldn’t get that to work so now I use the sysinfo cpu variable.

thanks @koffienl for pointing me in the right direction.