Attach photo to notification

Mobile Apps
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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.

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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")

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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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you’re welcome :wink:

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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?

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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: