Then the message becomes “Activity detected at Driveway”, BUT
The problem is that entity_ids are always lower case (I have tried many different ways to get a capital letter in there with no success-if anyone has a suggestion then I’d love to learn) SO
My entity id becomes camera.Driveway_alert BUT
The entity I created in my yaml is actually camera.driveway_alert (NOTE the lower case d)
For whatever reason on an iPhone if I hold the notification down then it still opens the picture fine, but the little tiny picture in the notification actually does not show up and is replaced with a default image.
My next test that I am going to try is to change the MQTT payload in BI to use “driveway” instead of the placeholder camera name and see if that changes it. (Which is still a pain as I could not copy all the settings from a previous camera when I setup a new one)
I’m trying to get a similar setup going. Did you have to allow the tailscale IP in BI in order to view the video? I am able to get the image but am stuck on the video.
I wanted to start getting this setup…and I’m running into a problem well before the MQTT step.
I cannot get any motion alert from BI in HA at all. I get camera feeds just fine and I haven’t ever wanted to do more until today. Apparently, none of the sensors function for me. Anybody have any idea what is going on?
I’ve had this running perfectly for 3 years now but have encountered a problem. My android notifications are always showing the previous alert photo, not the current one. When I navigate to the app on my phone the MQTT camera entity shows the latest image correctly though. Anyone come across this?
I deleted my post above as I have something similar going on with IOS but seems to have resolved itself after a few missed alerts? I was getting blank notifications and the file wasnt saving, but after 2 triggers on the same camera they starting working again. I am thinking something to do with MQTT retain settings getting out of sync? It started this behavior going to core 2024.6.4 and previously I was on 2024.5.4
A {{ trigger.payload_json.object.split(“:”)[0] }} ({{ trigger.payload_json.object.split(“:”)[1] }} confidence) was detected on the {{ trigger.payload_json.name }} camera.
You can get a result of:
A Person (84% confidence) was detected on the Doorbell Camera
There are complete working examples literally few posts up, for one.
But the issue with your automation is the fact that you are:
Not retrieving the image that you wish to send.
Not including said image with the Pushover payload.
Since many people are using HA App notifications, let me share with you an example of an action you will need for Pushover.
Once you figure out the snapshot piece, you will be good to go.
- service: notify.pushover
data:
title: Person at the door
message: Someone is at the door
data:
attachment: /config/www/snapshots/front_door.jpg
sound: bugle
priority: 0
Apologies if I should start a new thread, but the tutorial I followed linked back to this thread, so I thought I would try here first. I followed https://www.wundertech.net/blue-iris-motion-notifications-in-home-assistant/ to set up HA app notifications with images. I get the notifications as expected, but no image is included.
I have reviewed the raw message and validated path.path when appended to my base string should resolve to the correct URL, but still no dice. Any suggestions from anyone else that may have tried something similar?