Have BI only grab camera image on external trigger?

[camviewer43]

Hi,
I have a wifi webcam as part of my camera system. I don't want BI to be streaming from the webcam all the time - taking up wifi bandwidth 99.9% of the time for only the 0.1% when I want to record something. But I do want BI to connect to the camera stream and make a recording when a sensor is triggered - that's the only time I want it using up the wifi network to access the camera. I can make any API necessary when the sensor is triggered - say from a python script or whatever. Does BI have the capability to set up a camera to only record on an external API call for 10 seconds, and not access the camera otherwise?

Thanks for any ideas.

 

[wittaj]

Go into camera setting and under schedule, select at the bottom "camera is only active when externally triggered" and see if that accomplishes what you want.