I use Blue Iris with VorlonCD AI Tool & Deepstack to detect motion. I have the VorlonCD AI Tool send an mqtt message when relevant motion is detected. I then use node-red to receive the message and turn on an input_boolean, then after 5 seconds the boolean is turned off. This blueprint will send a notification with image to your device. I can’t take full credit for this blueprint. I just adjusted an existing blueprint posted on this forum to fit my needs with an input_boolean.
All my cameras are in Home Assistant via the HACS Blue-Iris integration.
Here’s the original that I modified.
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blueprint:
name: Send Camera Snapshot on Input Boolean state change
description: 'Sends a camera snapshot when on Input Boolean state change.
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domain: automation
input:
input_boolean:
name: Input Boolean
description: The Input Boolean that triggers the snapshot creation
selector:
entity:
domain: input_boolean
camera:
name: Camera
description: The camera that creates the snapshot
selector:
entity:
domain: camera
notify_device:
name: Device to notify
description: Device needs to run the official Home Assistant app to receive
notifications
selector:
device:
integration: mobile_app
is_ios:
name: Is it an iOS device?
description: Toggle if your selected device runs iOS, default is Android
selector:
boolean: {}
default: false
notification_title:
name: Notification title (Optional)
description: 'Default: "Motion detected!"'
default: Motion detected!
notification_message:
name: Notification message (Optional)
description: 'Default: "{{ input_boolean_name }} detected movement!"'
default: '{{ input_boolean_name }} detected movement!'
delay:
name: Delay (Optional)
description: Wait before creating camera snapshot
default: ''
selector:
number:
min: 0.0
max: 60.0
unit_of_measurement: seconds
mode: slider
step: 1.0
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: !input 'input_boolean'
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
variables:
input_boolean: !input 'input_boolean'
input_boolean_name: '{{ states[input_boolean].name }}'
camera: !input 'camera'
notify_device: !input 'notify_device'
is_ios: !input 'is_ios'
notification_title: !input 'notification_title'
notification_message: !input 'notification_message'
delay: !input 'delay'
snapshot_create_file_path: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_{{ states[camera].object_id
}}.jpg
snapshot_access_file_path: '{{ snapshot_create_file_path | replace(''/config/www'',''/local'')
}}'
action:
- delay: '{{ delay }}'
- service: camera.snapshot
entity_id: !input 'camera'
data:
filename: '{{ snapshot_create_file_path }}'
- device_id: !input 'notify_device'
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: '{{ notification_title }}'
message: '{{ notification_message }}'
data: '{% set android_data = {"image": "%s"} | format(snapshot_access_file_path)
%} {% set ios_data = {"attachment": {"url": "%s", "content_type": "JPEG"}} | format(snapshot_access_file_path)
%} {{ ios_data if is_ios else android_data }}'