Adding camera snapshots without public URL

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1

Is there a way to send my camera snapshots to my mobile app alert without exposing the snapshots to the whole internet?

service: notify.mobile_app_xxx
data:
  message: Something happened at home!
  data:
    image: 'https://xxx.ui.nabu.casa/local/snapshot.jpg'

As above is the only way I was able to see the actual image but not great as that is accessible by anyone on the internet.

Also tried image: 'https://xxx.ui.nabu.casa/media/local/snapshot.jpg' as detailed here: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-attachments/ but just keep getting authorization errors in the logs and no image in the notification.

Any one have any ideas on what might be incorrect?

2

Only if they know the exact filename. The local directory is not listable publicly.

So add a long random key to your filename that makes it difficult to guess. e.g.

image: 'https://xxx.ui.nabu.casa/local/wbrar3680nLfsw34hbs240bs25vex33v7_snapshot.jpg'
3

Actually if using image: /media/local/snapshot.jpg it saves it to the media folder which needs authorization and no need for public one at all :slight_smile:

4

You said that wasn’t working in your first post.

How did you overcome this issue?

5

Drop the first part of the url https://xxx.ui.nabu.casa
It is also different folder media instead of www

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