Camera Notification Template Help

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Hi all,

I have the following automation that I use to get notifications if there is motion around my house to send a push notification to my phone with an image. It works fine, however sometimes the automation triggers before the camera entity picture updates. Because these are Ring cameras I don’t have 24/7 streaming ability so I have to use a snapshot camera which updates on a motion event and also updates every 10 seconds.

alias: '📱🏃🏼Notification: Outside Motion'
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.backyard_camera_outside_motion
      - binary_sensor.driveway_camera_outside_motion
      - binary_sensor.front_door_camera_outside_motion
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: '{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.personDetected == true }}'
action:
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 300
  - service: camera.snapshot
    data:
      filename: >-
        /media/{{ trigger.entity_id.split('.')[1].replace('_outside_motion', '')
        }}.jpg
    target:
      entity_id: >-
        camera.{{ trigger.entity_id.split('.')[1].replace('_outside_motion', '')
        }}
    enabled: true
  - service: notify.mobile_app_brians_iphone
    data:
      message: >-
        There is a person at your {{ trigger.from_state.attributes.friendly_name
        }}
      title: Person Detected
      data:
        image: >-
          /media/local/{{
          trigger.entity_id.split('.')[1].replace('_outside_motion', '') }}.jpg
        push:
          thread-id: motion-notify
        actions:
          - action: MOTION_OUTSIDE_SNOOZE_30_MIN
            title: 'Snooze Notifications: 30 Minutes'
          - action: MOTION_OUTSIDE_SNOOZE_1_HOUR
            title: 'Snooze Notifications: 1 Hour'
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
        event_data:
          action: MOTION_OUTSIDE_SNOOZE_30_MIN
      - platform: event
        event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
        event_data:
          action: MOTION_OUTSIDE_SNOOZE_1_HOUR
    continue_on_timeout: false
    timeout: '1:00'
  - service: script.1621437264318
    data:
      snooze_time_mins: >-
        {% if wait.trigger.event.data.actionName == MOTION_OUTSIDE_SNOOZE_30_MIN
        %} 30 {% elif wait.trigger.event.data.actionName ==
        MOTION_OUTSIDE_SNOOZE_1_HOUR %} 60 {% endif %}
      automation_name: automation.outside_motion_notification
mode: restart

I’m trying to change it so instead of just sleeping 300 ms, it waits until the entity picture changes, but I can’t figure out the logic for this. I’ve tried the following but HA complains that its not valid.

wait_for_trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: camera.{{ trigger.entity_id.split('.')[1].replace('_outside_motion', '') }}
    attribute: entity_picture

My motion sensors for the cameras are as follows:
- binary_sensor.backyard_camera_outside_motion
- binary_sensor.driveway_camera_outside_motion
- binary_sensor.front_door_camera_outside_motion

The cameras associates with them are as follows:
- camera.backyard_camera_snapshot
- camera.driveway_camera_snapshot
- camera.front_door_camera_snapshot

But when I try to save I get the following error:
Message malformed: Entity [object Object] is neither a valid entity ID nor a valid UUID for dictionary value @ data[‘entity_id’]

Any ideas on how I can wait for the camera associated with the binary sensors entity picture to be updated before continuing with the automation?

2

I don’t believe the state trigger accepts a template for the entity_id parameter. There may be a more elegant way to do this, but a brute force way would be something like:

- choose:
    - conditions: "{{ 'backyard' in trigger.entity_id }}"
      sequence:
        - wait_for_trigger:
            - platform: state
              entity_id: camera.backyard_camera_snapshot
              attribute: entity_picture
    - conditions: "{{ 'driveway' in trigger.entity_id }}"
      sequence:
        - wait_for_trigger:
            - platform: state
              entity_id: camera.driveway_camera_snapshot
              attribute: entity_picture
    - conditions: "{{ 'front_door' in trigger.entity_id }}"
      sequence:
        - wait_for_trigger:
            - platform: state
              entity_id: camera.front_door_camera_snapshot
              attribute: entity_picture
3

yea thats the only way I thought of as well, but then I wouldn’t get to take advantage of my fancy templates and the automation would be 5x as long lol. Dang

4

Well you could create another automation that checks for changes in entity pictures, and fires an event indicating which changed:

- trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id:
        - camera.backyard_camera_snapshot
        - camera.driveway_camera_snapshot
        - camera.front_door_camera_snapshot
      attribute: entity_picture
  action:
    - event: camera_pic_changed
      event_data:
        location: "{{ trigger.to_state.object_id.replace('_camera_snapshot', '') }}"

and then use that in the wait in the other automation/script:

- wait_for_trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: camera_pic_changed
      event_data:
        location: "{{ trigger.to_state.object_id.replace('_outside_motion', '') }}"