Camera Live Feed to phone or ipad when motion detected

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Hi all,
I am trying to set up getting a notification to my iphone and ipad if motion is detected on a Reolink camera. I got it to work once and only once on the phone but not on the ipad. I can get the message that motion was detected, and if i long press the notification I can sometimes get the “View Live” to appear, but then it just heads off to my overview dashboard. Can anyone help point me in the right direction here ? ChatGPT keeps banging on about having to have the camera stream in a picture entities card, and wants me to add the name lovelace, which I believe, from my tiny knowledge of HA, it pretty redundant. Anyway, here is the code. I have set notifications to persistent if that makes any difference. Would appreciate any help you can offer. Sorry I cannot remember how to format the code correctlu in this message

'alias: Front Door Motion Notification with Camera Stream
description: Sends notification and live stream when motion detected
triggers:

  • entity_id: binary_sensor.front_door_ptz_motion
    from: “off”
    to: “on”
    trigger: state
    actions:
  • data:
    message: Motion detected at Front Door!
    data:
    push:
    sound: default
    actions:
    - action: URI
    title: View Live Feed
    uri: /dashboard-home/cameras
    action: notify.mobile_app_mike_iphone_2
  • data:
    message: Motion detected at Front Door!
    data:
    push:
    sound: default
    actions:
    - action: URI
    title: View Live Feed
    uri: /dashboard-home/cameras
    action: notify.mobile_app_ipad
    mode: single’
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forget my question. no idea why but it is working now

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The classic result of using ChatGPT. You dont know why it works, why it didn’t work, and what happened. (Neither did ChatGPT with outdated slop)

Unfortunately, you’ll probably be back with more questions unless you go and read the vendor documentation and understand it.

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The chance of me understanding vendor documentation is about as good as me understanding the very basics of quantum mechanics - and i did briefly try ! But I do appreciate you responding

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If the people that built it cannot explain how it works accurately and understandably, what chance does an hallucinating LLM have of getting it right?

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Many things seem daunting at first. But, if you are keen to learn, take things step by step and share where specifically you get stuck, you’ll get lots of help here.

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Hi Pieter,
I have tried to get a notification based on a reolink camera person detection, but the entity for this in home assistant never triggers and remains at off. Can you suggest where i post this issue to try to get help
Mike

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I’m unfortunately not familiar with Reolink (I use Dahua), but since it’s a built-in integration, have you checked the open issues for the integration on the HA Core GitHub? Is there perhaps a setting in your Reolink that needs to be enabled? Some integrations also have additional settings. Be sure to check that.

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Thanks Pieter
HA says it is updating and changing the status of the person detection entity, but as far as i can tell, it never actually changes from off. No open issues showing for this, so i guess it must be something i am missing. I do have http, https and rtsp all set up, but maybe there is something more. I will put out a new post to see if anyone more familiar with Reolink can help. As before, really appreciate the time you took to reply

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