Webcam plugin issue (caching image?)

[aswigon]

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction with this challenge.

So I am having an issue with the webcam plugin not saving the current image at each interval. It seems to be keeping a copy of an older image even thought the current image shown at the top is current.

Appreciate any assistance provided.

Screenshots attached to give example of that I am seeing.

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[aswigon]

Okay so I have determined that the plugin update php is using a cached image. Not quite sure how it is happening since its a hosted server but I found a way around it by modifying the CRON updatewebcam.php file as follows:

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			$imageFile = file_get_contents($imageURL);

to

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			$imageFile = file_get_contents($imageURL.'?'.mt_rand());

This forces the URL to be different everytime and therefore obtains a clean (uncached) copy of the image.