Pics from snapshots are much larger than trigger pics

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My location only has satellite internet available which is metered with a monthly cap of 10GB. As such I watch real close how much traffic I generate. No videos, just JPEG files.

In the record tab, I have it setup to take a JPEG snapshot every 60 minutes. In the post tab, it is configured to Queue an image update when camera triggered so I get JPEGs for that too. They get FTP'd to a remote site. Both work very well.

My problem is that the size of the images is drastically different between those generated by the hourly snapshot and the motion triggers. As example, taken at roughly the same time, the hourly snap is 142K and the motion snap is 53K. In the post tab, I have configured quality to 50% and the size to 640x480 which works out well for my application. I have gone into the camera setup and I'm on the smallest pic size it can take so no help there. I have a mixture of Foscam and Wansview and they both do this.

How can I control quality and size for the hourly snaps?
 
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