Help with IMAP_Email_Content Automation

Configuration
1

Good morning,
I´m trying to make an automation for a motion detection from an Abus camera. For this, I took the imap_email_content feature. here the config and the automation:

  - platform: imap_email_content
    server: imap.gmail.com
    name: abus_motiondetection
    port: 993
    username: [email protected]
    password: 123456788
    senders:
      - [email protected]


- id: '42'
  alias: motiondetection abus
  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.abus_motiondetection
    platform: state
    to: 'motiondetection'
  condition: []
  action:
    service: notify.pushbullet
    data:
      message: Movement Detected
      target: email/[email protected]

I know this will work only one time, as the sensor “sensor.abus_motiondetection” always has the state “motiondetection”, even if there are other emails arriving.

Do I have to “reset” the sensor state somehow, or can I use another syntax in the automation?
My idea was to add another action, like sending an email with “clear_state” in the Topic, to change the sensor state, but don´t know if this is the easiest way.

Thanks Philipp

2

Why not just add a second service at the end of your automation to change indeed the state of your sensors to something else?

3

Do you also have a Synology? If yes, you can add the camera in it, Synology is able to send the state through API

4

What service would that be?

That’s the way to do it. Or use this python script.

5

well, you can change the state of a switch/light/sensor with a curl command
so your second service would be a call to a shellcommanc

as example :

state_sensor: "curl -k POST -H \"Authorization: Bearer BEARERTOKEN\" -d '{\"state\": \"WHATEVERSTATE\",\"attributes\": {\"friendly_name\": \"NAMESENSOR\"}}' https://127.0.0.1:8123/api/states/sensor.YOURSENSOR"

1 Like
6

Thanks, I´ll give it a try