Cast Locally-Stored Snapshot/Image

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I’m having some difficulty with casting local images from my HA Server to either a Chromecast or Home Hub.

I’m trying to set it so when the doorbell is rang, a snapshot is taken and then this image should be cast. The images is also sent to my phone via Telegram and this works perfectly.

I previously had live video footage of the camera cast, however there is a lot of buffering so figured a snapshot may work better.

Running in to issues with actually casting the images. No problem connecting to the cast devices, however the image will not display.
I can however call the media_player.play_media service and cast web hosted images, just not local images.

The Doorbell Automation is as below:

# Door Bell
- alias: Doorbell
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: xiaomi_aqara.click
    event_data:
      entity_id: binary_sensor.switch_158d0002134e55
      click_type: single
  action:
    - service: camera.snapshot
      data:
        entity_id: camera.porch_ffmpeg
        filename: "/tmp/porch.jpg"
    - service: notify.notify
      data:
        message: "The doorbell was rang at {{now().strftime('%H:%M %d-%m-%Y')}}."
        data:
          photo:
           - file: /tmp/porch.jpg
             caption: The doorbell was rang at {{now().strftime('%H:%M %d-%m-%Y')}}.
    - service: notify.bridget
      data:
        message: "The doorbell was rang at {{now().strftime('%H:%M %d-%m-%Y')}}."
        data:
          photo:
           - file: /tmp/porch.jpg
             caption: The doorbell was rang at {{now().strftime('%H:%M %d-%m-%Y')}}.
    - service: xiaomi_aqara.play_ringtone
      data:
        gw_mac: 78:11:DC:B1:EF:85
        ringtone_id: 10
        ringtone_vol: 25
    - service: media_player.turn_on
      entity_id:
        - media_player.kitchen_display
        - media_player.lounge_max
        - media_player.lenovosmartdisplay89835
        - media_player.living_room_speaker
    - delay:
        seconds: 3
    - service: tts.google_say
      entity_id:
        - media_player.kitchen_display
        - media_player.lounge_max
        - media_player.lenovosmartdisplay89835
        - media_player.living_room_speaker
      data:
        message: 'Somebody is at the Front Door.'
#    - service: media_player.play_media
#      entity_id:
#        - media_player.kitchen_display
#        - media_player.chromecast1880
#        - media_player.lenovosmartdisplay89835
#      data:
#        media_content_id: "/tmp/porch.jpg"
#        media_content_type: "image/jpg"
#    - delay:
#        seconds: 30
#    - service: media_player.turn_off
#      entity_id:
#        - media_player.kitchen_display
#        - media_player.chromecast1880
#        - media_player.lenovosmartdisplay89835
#        - media_player.lounge_max
#        - media_player.living_room_speaker
#    - service: media_player.turn_on
#      entity_id: media_player.kitchen_display
#    - delay:
#        seconds: 3
#    - service: camera.play_stream
#      data:
#        entity_id: camera.porch_ffmpeg
#        media_player: media_player.kitchen_display
#    - delay:
#        seconds: 60
#    - service: media_player.turn_off
#      entity_id: media_player.kitchen_display

I’ve also whitelisted the required directory

homeassistant:
 
  whitelist_external_dirs:
    - /tmp

As an aside, where actually is this /tmp folder stored on Hassio?
I’ve found multiple /tmp folders on my server, but never been able to find a snapshot.

Thanks,

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Hi Chris, did you manage to resolve this? I have similar questions.