diff --git a/demo/console.html b/demo/console.html
index 05ffecf..1cf8ad7 100644
--- a/demo/console.html
+++ b/demo/console.html
@@ -230,11 +230,18 @@ async function tick(){
   setPill('#d-cloud','#t-cloud', s.cloud_ok ? 'ok' : 'bad', s.cloud_ok ? 'cloud connected' : 'cloud unreachable');
   $('#camname').textContent = cam ? cam.id : '';
 
-  if (cam && cam.connected && camStarted !== cam.id){
-    camStarted = cam.id;
-    $('#feed').src = '/camera.mjpeg?id=' + encodeURIComponent(cam.id);
-    $('#feed').style.display = 'block'; $('#feednone').style.display = 'none';
-    $('#camtag').style.display = 'block'; $('#camtag').textContent = cam.id;
+  if (cam && cam.connected){
+    if (camStarted !== cam.id){
+      camStarted = cam.id;
+      $('#feed').style.display = 'block'; $('#feednone').style.display = 'none';
+      $('#camtag').style.display = 'block';
+      // A polled still rather than an MJPEG stream: the engine re-serves its
+      // latest frame anyway, and a multipart stream through a proxy is one
+      // more thing to fail in front of an audience.
+      setInterval(() => { $('#feed').src = '/camera.jpg?id=' +
+        encodeURIComponent(camStarted) + '&t=' + Date.now(); }, 350);
+    }
+    $('#camtag').textContent = cam.id + (cam.tracks ? ` · ${cam.tracks} in frame` : '');
   }
 
   const e = (s.chain||[])[0];
diff --git a/demo/console.py b/demo/console.py
index 421f901..67380ad 100644
--- a/demo/console.py
+++ b/demo/console.py
@@ -133,8 +133,11 @@ def watch():
         try:
             auth = engine_auth()
             st, d = fetch(f"{ENGINE}/api/events?limit=25", headers={"authorization": auth})
-            if st == 200 and isinstance(d, dict):
-                for e in d.get("events", []):
+            # The engine returns a bare list; a dict with "events" is accepted
+            # too so this survives either shape.
+            evs = d if isinstance(d, list) else (d or {}).get("events", []) if isinstance(d, dict) else []
+            if st == 200:
+                for e in evs:
                     if e.get("type") not in ("person.new", "person.seen"):
                         continue
                     key = f"{e.get('ts')}|{e.get('camera_id')}|{(e.get('data') or {}).get('identity_id')}"
@@ -215,7 +218,9 @@ def snapshot() -> dict:
             "up": isinstance(health, dict) and bool(health.get("status")),
             "model": (health or {}).get("recognition_model") if isinstance(health, dict) else None,
             "cameras": [{"id": c.get("camera_id"), "connected": c.get("connected"),
-                         "frames": c.get("frames"), "faces": c.get("faces")} for c in cams],
+                         "frames": c.get("frames_processed") or c.get("frames_total"),
+                         "faces": c.get("faces_seen"),
+                         "tracks": c.get("active_tracks")} for c in cams],
         },
         "cloud_ok": st_v == 200,
         "chain": chain,
@@ -256,9 +261,26 @@ def main():
                     return self._send(400, b'{"error":"no id"}')
                 st, d = cloud.call(f"/api/visitors/{vid}/history?limit=8")
                 return self._send(200, json.dumps({"status": st, "history": d}).encode())
-            if u.path == "/camera.mjpeg":
+            if u.path == "/camera.jpg":
+                # A polled still, not the MJPEG stream. The engine re-serves its
+                # latest frame until the pipeline produces a new one, so polling
+                # shows the same picture - and a multipart stream through a
+                # proxy is one more thing to fail in front of an audience.
                 cam = parse_qs(u.query).get("id", [""])[0]
-                return self._proxy_stream(f"{ENGINE}/api/cameras/{cam}/stream.mjpeg")
+                st, body = fetch(f"{ENGINE}/api/cameras/{cam}/frame.jpg",
+                                 headers={"authorization": engine_auth()}, timeout=15)
+                if st != 200 or not isinstance(body, (bytes, bytearray)):
+                    return self._send(502, b'{"error":"no frame"}')
+                self.send_response(200)
+                self.send_header("content-type", "image/jpeg")
+                self.send_header("cache-control", "no-store")
+                self.send_header("content-length", str(len(body)))
+                self.end_headers()
+                try:
+                    self.wfile.write(body)
+                except (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError):
+                    pass
+                return
             self._send(404, b'{"error":"no"}')
 
         def do_POST(self):