Love this use of Ai, thanks for sharing.
Just when I think I have finished a particular project someone comes along and shows something way better.
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Thanks, will look this up for a future project.
I was just sitting in bed last night wondering how I could be notified if a white 
was on my driveway. 
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Isn’t that what AI stands for? Alpaca Identification? or am I doing it wrong? hahaha 
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Love it! Thanks!
Interestingly, it seems to think the sequence is opposite of what it is – a vehicle pulling into my driveway is seen as “backing out”.
Could fixing this just be a matter of reversing the image sequence as sent to Google?
Possibly. I noticed mine does this as well on one camera when I enter the drive. I will have a play and report back. 
Google AI is not available in Europe… is this could work with ChatGPT? Or any other AI solution?
Works a treat! Initially got a 400 error about billing but once I added a payment account it worked straight away. It seems UK and EEA areas don’t get gemini for ‘free’ and it has to have a linked payment account. Unsure whether it’ll cost or not as the documentation is unclear.
hey, how do you deal with the occassional 500 errors from Google?
For example, in my case, I just want to Google to tell us what type of bird it is from the photo thumbnail, but if it fails (because of a 500 error), to just say there is motion detected
With a 500 error, it stops the whole automation so I tried this if-else, but it seems to always default to else, even if Google responded correctly:
- service: tts.speak
data:
cache: true
media_player_entity_id: media_player.fire_tablet
message: >-
{% if 'text' in generated_response %}
Motion has been detected at your bird feeder. {{ generated_response['text'] }}
{% else %}
Motion has been detected at your bird feeder. No AI avialable.
{% endif %}
target:
entity_id: tts.piper
The photo part for this is a little different than text, because with text you can work with the action_done attribute, but I don’t think the photo generation has this?
thanks
Hi @Aussie_Adam , I just want to thank you for this. I’ve been trying to achieve similar for days and then came across this and it helped no end. Kudos sir!
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This is phenominal, thank you for the write-up! My only issue is I’m seeing an old/cached snapshot in the notification, even though the snapshot is up to date in the folder. Has this happened to anyone else?
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Sorry for the slow reply, but I haven’t come across this issue on my end with Iphone or Ipad. Did you end up getting it sorted or are you still seeing cached images?
Thank you so much for this! I do have one quick question / issue I’m running in to. Even when using the updated script, I’m still receiving notifications indicating “Camera has detected motion however no obvious motion observed comparing snapshots.”
Any thoughts on why it may be triggering? When I check the traces, it’s evaluating as false.
Not sure without seeing your YAML however just double check that you don’t have an extra space or something in the text in the prompt or in the if statement, especially at the end after the full stop. It needs to match exactly or it will still trigger and when I wrote, one space did my head in for ages so just check! If still no joy, post up your YAML on a GitHub Gist or even post below and I’ll try spot what is going on
Maybe it is something I’m just missing after looking at it over and over. I tried changing the text as well. Apprecaite any guidance on anything I might have missed! I’m posting from the call for the Generative AI on - the actual camera calls for the snapshots works great!
Once again, thanks for posting this!
- action: google_generative_ai_conversation.generate_content
metadata: {}
data:
prompt: >-
Motion has been detected, compare and very briefly describe what you see
in the following sequence of images from my driveway camera number. What
do you think caused the motion alarm? If a person or car is present,
describe them in detail. Do not describe stationary objects or
buildings. If you see no obvious causes of motion, reply with "No
Obvious Motion Detected." Your message needs to be short enough to fit
in a phone notification.
image_filename:
- ./www/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot1.jpg
- ./www/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot2.jpg
- ./www/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot3.jpg
response_variable: generated_content
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: |
{{ generated_content['text'] == 'No Obvious Motion Detected.'}}
then:
- stop:
else:
- metadata: {}
data:
title: Driveway Motion Detected
message: "{{generated_content['text'] }}"
data:
image: /local/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot2.jpg
action: notify.mobile_app_danielws_iphone_2
mode: single
Ok my first reply was wrong, but I fixed it and it runs fine on my end now. Let me know if it works for you now:
- action: google_generative_ai_conversation.generate_content
metadata: {}
data:
prompt: >-
Motion has been detected, compare and very briefly describe what you see
in the following sequence of images from my driveway camera number 1. What
do you think caused the motion alarm? If a person or car is present,
describe them in detail. Do not describe stationary objects or
buildings. If you see no obvious causes of motion, reply with "No
Obvious Motion Detected." Your message needs to be short enough to fit
in a phone notification.
image_filename:
- ./www/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot2.jpg
- ./www/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot1.jpg
response_variable: generated_content
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ 'No Obvious Motion Detected.' in generated_content.text }}
then:
- stop: " No motion detected"
else:
- metadata: {}
data:
title: Driveway Motion Detected
message: "{{generated_content['text'] }}"
data:
image: /local/snapshots/driveway1_snapshot2.jpg
action: notify.mobile_app_danielws_iphone_2
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Just tested it - worked great! Thank you so much!
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Thank You for sharing
I’m getting notification with old snapshot and not the correct one, there’s any way to refresh before sending the picture from the snapshot folder?
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Solution:
image: >-
https://HA-URL/local/snapshots/intercom_snapshot2.jpg?{{as_timestamp(now())}}
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Sweet thanks for posting that, I had been meaning to update to include timestamps but never got around to it. Glad you got it sorted.