I have my doorbell set up almost perfect now… but i’m missing one part.
Currently ihave pushover alerts for when the doorbell is pressed.
I also have a snapshot from a camera…
however i don’t have a way of including that image in the message i receive…
To clarify, i don’t want it as a text link… i’d rather have it as an attachment to the message…
Does anyone know a way of doing that?
If you’re willing to change platform, telegram supports images easily.
I’d be happy to swap platform… i’ll take a look… thanks
I believe some people have HTML5 push notifications showing pictures as well. It wasn’t supported when I first used it and I don’t have any cameras so I haven’t checked myself.
I’m a big fan of HTML5 myself as I can subscribe to notifications on my work PC and I don’t need to install special software (which probably wouldn’t be approved).
OK Telegram seems… more complicated than i had originally understood…
I may have to rethink this.
It’s not that complicated. The docs look complicated because it’s such a powerful platform.
Download telegram from the play store and set up an account.
Message the idbot to get your chat id
Message the botfather bot and follow the instructions to set up a new bot and get your api_key
Send a message to your new bot to start the conversation
Put your chat id and api_key in the right places in homeassistant configuration.
Restart.
Then send messages same as you did before, but to your telegram notifier, and add whatever extra options you want (like images in your case)
As long as you can point a url to the image this is really easy to do.
Pushbullet works too.