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I am looking to send a request to my phone's IP over the LAN using curl and get back an image from the camera.

At the moment, I am doing this with IP Webcam, but I don't need the video stream – just still photos. Because it's streaming video, the app absolutely kills my phone battery, and is useless after running for an hour.

All of the other apps that I can find with remote photo functionality are either webcam apps with no ability to disable video streaming, or sketchy "spy" apps that require far too many permissions and provide features I don't want (like remotely reading SMS messages).

Features I want:

• Remotely trigger taking photos when a request is made
• Use flash when taking a remotely-triggered photo
• Web server that serves images so I can request with curl
• Only takes photos, no video
• Only works over LAN, no cloud
• Strong preference for FOSS applications
• Bonus points if battery metadata is also made accessible to curl via the same app/server

Note: I am open to video-streaming apps that have an option to fully disable video and only provide still images.

I am looking to send a request to my phone's IP over the LAN using curl and get back an image from the camera.

At the moment, I am doing this with IP Webcam, but I don't need the video stream – just still photos. Because it's streaming video, the app absolutely kills my phone battery, and is useless after running for an hour.

All of the other apps that I can find with remote photo functionality are either webcam apps with no ability to disable video streaming, or sketchy "spy" apps that require far too many permissions and provide features I don't want (like remotely reading SMS messages).

Features I want:

• Remotely trigger taking photos when a request is made
• Use flash when taking a remotely-triggered photo
• Web server that serves images so I can request with curl
• Only takes photos, no video
• Photos are taken and transferred in full resolution
• Only works over LAN, no cloud
• Strong preference for FOSS applications
• Bonus points if battery metadata is also made accessible to curl via the same app/server

Note: I am open to video-streaming apps that have an option to fully disable video and only provide still images.

I am looking to send a request to my phone's IP over the LAN using curl and get back an image from the camera.

At the moment, I am doing this with IP Webcam, but I don't need the video stream – just still photos. Because it's streaming video, the app absolutely kills my phone battery, and is useless after running for an hour.

All of the other apps that I can find with remote photo functionality are either webcam apps with no ability to disable video streaming, or sketchy "spy" apps that require far too many permissions and provide features I don't want (like remotely reading SMS messages).

Features I want:

• Remotely trigger taking photos when a request is made
• Use flash when taking a remotely-triggered photo
• Web server that serves images so I can request with curl
• Only takes photos, no video
• Only works over LAN, no cloud
• Strong preference for FOSS applications

Note: I am open to video-streaming apps that have an option to fully disable video and only provide still images.

I am looking to send a request to my phone's IP over the LAN using curl and get back an image from the camera.

At the moment, I am doing this with IP Webcam, but I don't need the video stream – just still photos. Because it's streaming video, the app absolutely kills my phone battery, and is useless after running for an hour.

All of the other apps that I can find with remote photo functionality are either webcam apps with no ability to disable video streaming, or sketchy "spy" apps that require far too many permissions and provide features I don't want (like remotely reading SMS messages).

Features I want:

• Remotely trigger taking photos when a request is made
• Use flash when taking a remotely-triggered photo
• Web server that serves images so I can request with curl
• Only takes photos, no video
• Only works over LAN, no cloud
• Strong preference for FOSS applications
• Bonus points if battery metadata is also made accessible to curl via the same app/server

Note: I am open to video-streaming apps that have an option to fully disable video and only provide still images.

I am looking to send a request to my phone's IP over the LAN using curl and get back an image from the camera.

At the moment, I am doing this with IP Webcam, but I don't need the video stream – just still photos. Because it's streaming video, the app absolutely kills my phone battery, and is useless after running for an hour.

All of the other apps that I can find with remote photo functionality are either webcam apps with no ability to disable video streaming, or sketchy "spy" apps that require far too many permissions and provide features I don't want (like remotely reading SMS messages).

Features I want:

• Remotely trigger taking photos when a request is made
• Use flash when taking a remotely-triggered photo
• Web server that serves images so I can request with curl
• Only takes photos, no video
• Only works over LAN, no cloud

Note: I am open to video-streaming apps that have an option to fully disable video and only provide still images.

I am looking to send a request to my phone's IP over the LAN using curl and get back an image from the camera.

At the moment, I am doing this with IP Webcam, but I don't need the video stream – just still photos. Because it's streaming video, the app absolutely kills my phone battery, and is useless after running for an hour.

All of the other apps that I can find with remote photo functionality are either webcam apps with no ability to disable video streaming, or sketchy "spy" apps that require far too many permissions and provide features I don't want (like remotely reading SMS messages).

Features I want:

• Remotely trigger taking photos when a request is made
• Use flash when taking a remotely-triggered photo
• Web server that serves images so I can request with curl
• Only takes photos, no video
• Only works over LAN, no cloud
• Strong preference for FOSS applications

Note: I am open to video-streaming apps that have an option to fully disable video and only provide still images.