Bring Still Image from rtsp url surveillance camera

[areyes]

Image a security guard at the main entrance of a building, that needs to record each visitors that needs to get in to the buildings. I would like to know if its is possible that in the moment he creates a new record, I can capture an still image from an URL like rtsp://user:password@surveillanceipcamera/media/video1 from a local surveillance camera to kept and store as part of the record created for each visitor?

[dbaum]

Maybe the video camera stream software itself provides a method to retrieve just the current frame as an image?

Otherwise, consider looking into an API-based service like SITE-SHOT.

[areyes]

Yes. I found that pointing to this url I got a snapshot from the live media http://192.168.1.34:85/images/snapshot.jpg 

[areyes]

Could you please help me to know how to convert this URL: http://admin:password@192.168.1.34:85/images/snapshot.jpg into an Image in my form? I tried to use Snapshot with encode url but no luck. I also set the column as Show datatype and select image and paste the url as source, but still not working.

[dbaum]

Your URL doesn't open for me.

The SNAPSHOT function represents an app's UI and doesn't seem relevant to your need.

Try assigning the Show type column a category of URL rather than image.

[areyes]

I tried that one, but it shows an image icon cropped. I think it won´t work as Steve mentioned below. Thank you for your help. 

[Steve]

It is not possible for AppSheet to keep a copy of an image originally stored elsewhere. AppSheet can display the image, but the image would not be captured and stored for later review.

Also, I sincerely hope the username and password or your "security" camera are not literally admin and password, and that you camera is not making the images available over unencrypted HTTP rather than HTTPS.

[areyes]

Thank you Steve. No hopefully that's not my user/password for the security camera I just posted it as an example.