Automation for Reolink camera image notification

Share your Projects!
, , ,
1

I’m not sure where to post automation yaml like this. I only see a Blueprints channel here.

I love my Reolink cameras/NVR but one really deficient thing about them is they only give you a text notification for motion detection via their native app. I used Claude to get this automation to work whereby it it will take a snapshot of the motion and use HA’s notifications to send me it! Works great so far. Also has a timer to not blast me over and over, only after 3 minutes till the next one…

Create a Helper

Through the Home Assistant UI:

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & Services > Helpers
  2. Create a new “Timer” helper called “MBR Motion Cooldown”
  3. Set the duration to 3 minutes

Then modify your automation to:

alias: MBR Motion Notification
description: >-
  Sends a notification with embedded camera image when motion is detected on
  weekend nights
triggers:
  - type: motion
    device_id: 4d60361296a0c3dd8d6e6a26db0b5c0c
    entity_id: 95b333440490a4b0f3b0da4b162a0410
    domain: binary_sensor
    trigger: device
conditions:
  - condition: or
    conditions:
      - condition: time
        weekday:
          - fri
      - condition: time
        weekday:
          - sat
  - condition: time
    after: "20:00:00"
    before: "10:00:00"
  - condition: state
    entity_id: timer.mbr_motion_cooldown
    state: idle
actions:
  - data:
      message: >-
        Motion detected in Master Bedroom at {{ now().strftime('%b %d, %Y %I:%M:%S %p') }}
      title: Security Alert
      data:
        image: /api/camera_proxy/camera.mbr_fluent
        ttl: 0
        priority: high
        importance: high
        channel: security_alerts
        vibrationPattern: 100, 1000, 100, 1000, 100
        actions:
          - action: URI
            title: View Camera
            uri: >-
              http://homeassistant.local:8123/dashboard-cameras/0?entity=camera.mbr_fluent
    action: notify.mobile_app_galaxy_s10
  - target:
      entity_id: timer.mbr_motion_cooldown
    data:
      duration: "00:03:00"
    action: timer.start
mode: single

This was the only version of several tried that would actually send the image in Android.

I have a custom “pane of glass” for all my various cameras and this loads that page as well. I want it to load the live camera feed directly when clicking the notification, although that’s still a work in progress…