how to setup single pictures for weather underground

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Tinman33
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how to setup single pictures for weather underground

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Trying to setup a feed for weather underground. Would like to store snapshots in folder for FTPing.but need to have the same name pic after pic. Now pics are labeled sequentially I want to overwrite with same name so my FTP mailer can send the pic with the same name. I have tried to use AMCREST FTP with no success.
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longedge
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If you find a solution to do this can you post it.

I've built my own app but I can't get past Windows Security where I have to manually click OK to allow the connection when I grab the snapshot. Laughable if it wasn't so frustrating, I can ftp the result to my webspace without intervention but I can't 'talk' to "cgi-snapshot" on the device on my own network!
My AMCREST Cameras:-
2 x IP3M-941B firmware V2.620.00AC00.3.R, Build Date: 2019-12-18
1 x IP2M-841B firmware V2.420.AC00.18.R, Build Date: 2019-08-03
LaPazRico
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Re: how to setup single pictures for weather underground

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I used to have a single cheap IP camera that would send shots to FTP server. It soon filled up, so I wrote a simple cron job that deletes the old pics in the folder each day. You could do something like that, just prior to the time your camera is set to upload a new set.
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Hi LaPazRico,

Most of the customers prefer not to delete the footage as they may require this. Where in the cloud always rewrite.
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@LaPazRico - If it was a server side problem that would work fine for me, as it is I am one step short of leaving my app running on my PC and that is the need every time to click OK. I've added the camera's network name explicitly to Windows Credential Manager but it still insists on manual confirmation. It's not a 'biggy' for me it was just a case of wondering if I could do it.
My AMCREST Cameras:-
2 x IP3M-941B firmware V2.620.00AC00.3.R, Build Date: 2019-12-18
1 x IP2M-841B firmware V2.420.AC00.18.R, Build Date: 2019-08-03
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