The new Ubiquiti Aircam is an great and cheap IP webcam.

Quirks

• As in 1.13 do not issue PAUSE on the RTSP as it causes the stream to crash.
• If you have DHCP running it will get an automatic IP assigned.

Single Snapshot

You can get an single snapshot using the HTTP or using the RTSP: HTTP: $ curl -c /tmp/cookies.txt ​http://ubnt/login.cgi && curl -o snapshot.jpg -LH 'Expect:' -b /tmp/cookies.txt -F username=ubnt -F password=ubnt -F uri=/snapshot.cgi ​http://ubnt/login.cgi RTSP: $ ffmpeg -i ​rtsp://ubnt/live/ch00_0 -frames 1 snapshot.jpg

Pro Series?

Looking at the firmware there are a whole bunch of features which I cannot find at my normal AirCam so I guess they will show up in the pro series:

• SD Card Support:

  AirCam.v1.1.3# strings /bin/ubnt-streamer  | grep -i Record
  Recording stopped
  SD card is full, can not record!%s
  Recording started to %s
  

• Motion Detection

  AirCam.v1.1.3# strings /bin/ubnt-streamer  | grep -i motion
  /var/run/motion_event
  /var/run/motion_eventtmp
  Motion detection enabled for %d:%d (%dx%d@%d.%d, threshold %d)
  

• Audio Support

  AirCam.v1.1.3# strings /bin/ubnt-streamer  | grep -i 'audio input'
  Audio input %d: enabled, mixer %d, at %d sampling rate, %d channel(s), encoder type %d set to bitrate %d
  
  

Motion Support

"Joerg Linge" pointed out:

I am playing around with my new AirCam running AirCam Firmware 1.1.3

It seams /var/run/motion_event is created and the content changes while motion is detected

while true; do cat /var/run/motion_event ; sleep 1; done