how to take a snapshot

Bug Report

Describe the Bug

This is not really a bug, but forgive me that I could not find another place to open this for discussion… I am trying to make my code not only expose a livestream using your browser example which works fine, but also to make a regular snapshot. I am not sure how to approach this? Would you suggest adding another output to the sipSession that calls ffmpeg to save snapshots every X seconds? Or use the getSnapShot() function? I am not even sure what that will return.

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• Create an ApiClient
• Attempt to …
• See error

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Environment

• OS: [e.g. Raspbian]
• Node.js: [e.g. 12.14.1]
• NPM: [e.g 6.13.4]
• ring-client-api: [e.g 6.0.3]

[dgreif]

Yeah, that’s because Ring is odd about when you can fetch a snapshot. If you call getSnapshot(true), it will return “stale” snapshots, as in they may not be from right that second.

[dgreif]

Snapshot limitations are detailed in https://github.com/dgreif/ring/wiki/Battery-Cam-Snapshots. You can call getSnapshot(true) while live streaming, but there is no guarantee that you will receive a snapshot that isn’t stale.