I’m sorry to be that newbie. Have been struggling with this for two days straight. Have read the forums and tried every syntax combination I’ve come across to no avail. Just looking for the configuration syntax to attach a photo to a notification. I can confirm the photo is where I think it is, and I can access it.
What kind of notification?
What kind of photo?
Where is the photo?
Here is the structure I use for a photo link (from BlurIris send as a path via MQTT) on share using Telegram and Signal.
/media/camalerts/Alerts/{{states("sensor.mqtt_12345_blueiris_front_lower_cam_image_path")
and here a webcam snapshot to IOS when motion is detected at the front door:
alias: Front Doorcam Send a doorcam snapshot on movement AceIndy
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.frontdoormotion_sensor
from: "off"
to: "on"
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 0
condition: []
action:
- service: camera.snapshot
entity_id: camera.doorcam
data:
filename: "{{ snapshot_create_file_path }}"
- service: notify.mobile_app_aceindy_iphone
data:
title: "{{ notification_title }}"
message: "{{ notification_message }}"
data:
attachment:
content-type: jpeg
url: /local/tmp/snapshot_doorcam.jpg
push:
sound:
name: default
critical: 1
volume: 1
variables:
binary_sensor: binary_sensor.frontdoormotion_sensor
binary_sensor_name: "{{ states[binary_sensor].name }}"
notification_title: Movement detected
notification_message: "{{ binary_sensor_name }} was activated!"
snapshot_create_file_path: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_{{ states[camera].object_id }}.jpg
snapshot_access_file_path: "{{ snapshot_create_file_path | replace('/config/www','/local') }}"
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Honestly after 4000 variations of attachment, image, push, internal dirs, external dirs this worked. Thank you!
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My experience with snapshots is not ideal. I had some notifications that worked and then stopped, or images were cached.
I got advice here in forum to just use api as follows:
service: notify.phone_notification
data:
title: <b>You've got mail!</b>
message: Check your mailbox
data:
image: /api/camera_proxy/camera.mail_high
notification_icon: mdi:mailbox-up-outline
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How do you retrieve the api of camera and does it also work for video?
Just in case someone else stumbles across this thread: I tried everything, and nothing seemed to work. I would receive a preview of the photo, but when I clicked on the notification, it opened the app (iOS, in this case) without showing the photo or other (i.e. map) attachment. Then I realized you had to press and hold the notification (D’oh) to see the attachment.
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if someone finds this and has problems geting it to work, here is my working automations yaml script:
So I fought my way through the different notations of paths, and here are my findings:
- option 1: pass the path as
"/local/<whatever>"where"/local"is actually"/config/www"on your disk - option 2: pass the path as
"/media/local/<whatever>"where"/media/local/"is actually"/media/"on your disk. This is the tricky part, because"/media/local"translates to “use media source named local”, which by default points to"/media"on the hard disk.
Option 2 is especially important if you added a new media folder in GUI (e.g. a folder from a NAS). It is then mounted inside "/media" on the disk. So you access it as "/media/local/your_new_folder". All this applies only to notifications!
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This is all well and good, but I want the image in the notification to be static. In other words, I don’t want to include a link to the photo, but the photo itself. If I include a link, the photo in that link will likely change before I get around to viewing it. Having a static image included in the notification is the only way to keep the message text and image in sync.
This is very static:
Hi all, thanks for the descriptions. I’m no dev, but would like to follow your solution.
This notification works, but with no image… I’m guessing problem might be with image location on action: camera.snapshot:
filename: /media/motion.jpg
and on notify.notify action:
image: /media/motion.jpg
My current Notification yaml:
alias: 111 Notification - Doorbell Motion
description: ""
triggers:
- type: motion
device_id: 0590e894177956550b149beef8d39c6c
entity_id: 2f0b59aa727ff884d6eedd088bf6e094
domain: binary_sensor
trigger: device
conditions: []
actions:
- action: camera.snapshot
metadata: {}
data:
filename: /media/motion.jpg
target:
device_id: 6066ecd85d9b787e61659957856b4162
- action: notify.notify
metadata: {}
data:
message: At {{ now().strftime('%H:%M %a %d %b %Y') }}
data:
image: /media/motion.jpg
ttl: 0
priority: high
importance: high
channel: critical
visibility: public
car_ui: true
notification_icon: mdi:motion-sensor
actions:
- action: scene.downstairs_light_on
title: Turn Downstairs Light On
title: Doorbell Motion
mode: single
You are right…
snapshot_create_file_path: "/config/www/tmp/snapshot_{{ states[camera].object_id }}.jpg"
snapshot_access_file_path: "{{ snapshot_create_file_path | replace('/config/www','/local') }}"
As you can see from a snippet from my blueprint:
- The snapshot must be in www folder
- When taking the snapshot, store it in /config/www/some folder/some name
- In the notification, use /local/some folder/some name
PS, I assumed you use android, as for IPhone you should use ‘url’ instead of ‘image’ 
Yeah, so I got it working with help from AI. Apparently camera.snapshot action requires an internal URL. However, if you want it to work inside and outside your home network, notify.notify action require an external URL (NabuCasa) works well.
My working example:
alias: 111 Notification - Doorbell Motion
description: ""
triggers:
- type: motion
device_id: 0590e894177956550b149beef8d39c6c
entity_id: 2f0b59aa727ff884d6eedd088bf6e094
domain: binary_sensor
trigger: device
conditions: []
actions:
- action: camera.snapshot
metadata: {}
data:
filename: /config/www/tmp/motion.jpg
target:
entity_id:
- camera.doorbell_wifi_250_mediaprofile_channel1_substream1
- action: notify.notify
metadata: {}
data:
message: At {{ now().strftime('%H:%M %a %d %b %Y') }}
data:
image: >-
https://xxxxxxxxccchhh.ui.nabu.casa/local/tmp/motion.jpg
ttl: 0
priority: high
importance: high
channel: critical
visibility: public
car_ui: true
notification_icon: mdi:motion-sensor
actions:
- action: scene.downstairs_light_on
title: Turn Downstairs Light On
title: Doorbell Motion
mode: single