Hi,
I have an alert set up for my camera that sends repeated notifications to my android phone if a person is detected. This has been working perfectly for me. However, I wanted to improve the notifications by adding a snapshot from the camera. I’ve tried adding the image field to the alert and the notify configs but neither seem to work. I do get the notification but it doesn’t contain any image.
Alert config (in alerts.yaml):
side_camera:
name: "Alert Side Camera"
message: "Person detected on side camera!"
done_message: clear_notification
title: "Alert!"
entity_id: input_boolean.side_camera_alarm
state: "on"
repeat:
- 0.1
can_acknowledge: True
skip_first: False
notifiers:
- notify_android_with_image
data:
tag: side_camera
actions:
- action: "acksidecameraalert"
title: "Silence"
Notify config (in configuration.yaml):
notify:
- platform: group
name: "Notify Android With Image"
services:
- action: mobile_app_android
data:
data:
ttl: 0
visibility: public
priority: high
image: "/media/local/camera_snapshots/side/{{ states('input_datetime.side_last_event_timestamp') | as_timestamp | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S') }}.jpg"
I captured the service call using developer tools:
event_type: call_service
data:
domain: notify
service: mobile_app_android
service_data:
message: Person detected on side camera!
title: Alert!
data:
image: >-
/media/local/camera_snapshots/side/{{states('input_datetime.side_last_event_timestamp')
| as_timestamp | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S') }}.jpg
ttl: 0
visibility: public
priority: high
tag: side_camera
actions:
- action: acksidecameraalert
title: Silence
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: "2025-01-01T01:27:17.230755+00:00"
context:
id: 01JGFQJSFE3SFRCQ24V47YXQ7E
parent_id: null
user_id: null
It seems like the issue is that the template expression is evaluated as a string?