Guide for CCTV Snapshot on motion, send to Google Generative AI & get notification with description & snapshot

Ya, it is not working for me. It doesn’t run the automation.

Is anybody else getting limited by google?

Error generating content: 429 Quota exceeded for quota metric ‘Generate Content API requests per minute’ and limit ‘GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region’ of service ’

Use a different notification provider like ntfy if you want history of what notifications it’s sent, or you can set the Hass notification as “sticky” so you have to manually swipe it away instead of vanishing on press.

For multi-line, you’ll need to format that yourself in the notification using templates.

That’s the limit on Google’s APIs, you’re sending too many requests per minute, the quota will reset every 60 seconds for per minute limits.

So, you have a bunch of Gemini requests all at once (motion triggers too sensitive) or you have a large amount of cameras triggering during those 60 seconds (lots and lots of cameras).

Do you have lots of cameras? Or are your motion sensitivities set to high?

2 Cameras and under 50 requests per day. Do you have an idea what the limit is?

Looks like 15 rpm

Idk why it’s in Arabic, that link is in English for me.

Which doesn’t sounds like you’d be breaking the limit , unless they count each image as a request and then the prompt as it’s own.? Idk. Do you have anything else making requests to Gemini API using that API key?

It charges me a miniscule amount, like 2 cents CAD a day roughly for my workload. So idk what limits apply to me, but I haven’t hit them yet.

Here’s my daily and lifetime total for requests.

No params. What region are you in? Fwict, it’s instantaneous for me. In my latest trace, it takes about 4 seconds from start to sending a notification and I am using 1 second delays between snapshots.

Can you show a trace? 6 minutes for a reply doesn’t really make sense as the request would of timed out by then, but who knows, maybe it’s a websocket or something.

Edit: re-reading and it seems you mean just the notification is slow. Sometimes firebase takes a long time regardless of if you configure your phone to turn off battery optimizations for the companion app.

One thing to note as well, i’ve noticed in samsung android phones, if you turn battery protection/saver on, it seems to override battery optimization settings. Meaning, even if companion app isnt battery optimized and battery saver is on, firebase notifications will be queued. If the screen is off for the activity timeout period, background stuff stops and the phone goes into deep sleep to conserve battery, as soon as you wake the phone up and turn screen on, you’ll start getting the queued firebase notifications.

2 nights ago it took an hour or 2 to get Hass notifications. I use ntfy and it is instant as well as keeps a log of previous messages until you delete them. The trade-off is because the phone app keeps a connection open to your ntfy server, it uses battery. I havent really noticed any meaningful impact on my daily phone usage though.