Camera - Send & Save snapshot to mobile device when motion is detected with Conditions. Now with Custom Triggers!

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I have REO-LINK cameras that are currently integrated with HA. How would I set this BP up to work with them. It looks great!!

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Me too
I want to use it with my reolink cameras

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Each camera needs its own.

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As long as HA recognizes the camera, so should this blueprint.

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I found the snapshots do not work properly with Ring Doorbell cams. It doesnt force the Ring camera to take a new snapshot. It uses the last snapshot that the Ring itself tookā€¦ which could be an hour old. I have not yet found a way to fix this.

If anyone knows how to fix for Ring Doorbell cams please LMK.

Ring doorbell/spotlight camera motion triggers [SOLVED]
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So Iā€™ve been having this issue and it does not seem to be an issue creating a Snapshot, but either our devices or some intermediary (like Cloudflare) are caching the image. I tested it out based on another post adding a timestamp to the url. Changes in the YAML look like this:

    data: >-
      {% set timestamp = as_timestamp(now()) %} {% set android_data = {"image":
      snapshot_access_file_path ~ "?" ~ timestamp} %} {% set ios_data = {
        "attachment": {
          "url": snapshot_access_file_path ~ "?" ~ timestamp,
          "content_type": "JPEG"
        }
      } %} {{ ios_data if is_ios else android_data }}

Perhaps an anti-caching feature like this could be implemented into the Blueprint?

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I thought the BP pulls from a local source (drive/folder)?

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It should be just HA trying to take a snapshot of the camera. It should not relay on Ring to take the snapshot

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It doesn, from HA /media folder

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Sure, I can look into this this weekend.

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Any ideas?

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what did you need? The snapshots are stored in /media/snapshots on your device

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The issue was caused by a major bug in HA Core handling of Ring camsā€¦

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oh! Sorry, I actually use Tapo cameras, not RING, never ran into this issue. If HA canā€™t take the snapshot, this blueprint will not either. Hopefully a fix will come.

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I literally made an account on the forums just to say thank you. This works very well

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Hi! Is it possible to use this without the notification bit in any way? I just want to the camera that is watching my boat to trigger every 20 seconds and then use the storage system in the blueprint to store the snaps. But when I try to save, it says ā€œmessage malformedā€ because there is no device to notify.

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yea, there should be a Notify toggle in the blueprint

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Thank you, Iā€™ll look for that!

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Silly question, so pardon the likely Layer 8 issue here.

Iā€™m trying to have have the automation also create a persistent notification in the web GUI as part of the ā€œAdditional Actions Afterā€. My attempts are unsuccessful. I just get a broken link icon. I have tried it with and without adding /local into the file path.

Am I missing something stupid?

action: persistent_notification.create
data:
  message: Motion Detected in Storage Room at {{ now().strftime("%H:%M:%S on
   %d-%m-%Y") }}
   ![image-name](/media/local/snapshots/{{ states[camera].object_id }}/last_motion.jpg)
  title: Motion Detected in Storage Room
  notification_id: "1113"
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no, some added actions break the blueprint. I do not know whyā€¦