Is it possible? Binary_sensor to trigger 5 camera snapshots, turn to gif and push to ios?

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I’m very, very green and trying to work this out step by step but I’m on day 6 and going nowhere.

I have a teen with aspergers and ADHD so impulse control is something we struggle with.

For example, I have a wyze contact sensor on our electronic cabinet where electronics are put up after 8PM.
I have a camera inside the cabinet.
I use motioneye to manage cameras.
I can’t set Motioneye up for motion recording, because the cabinet is glass and records everytime someone walks by, so I need it to be triggered when the binary sensor is “on”
I would prefer that it take a series of snapshots, instead of video because the videos are very large.
I would then like it to take those 5 snapshots, put them in my /www/gallery/ folder and turn them into a .gif or something similar, and then either email them or somehow push them to my husband’s and my own IOS devices - If needed I can even host an album on my server and push that link.

I hope this all makes sense, if not I can try to explain further. Thanks in advance!

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I push multiple snapshots to email without turning them into a gif if that helps.

- id: drive_camera_motion
  alias: 'Drive Camera Motion'
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id:
    - binary_sensor.pir_drive
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
  condition:
  - condition: template # only every 5 minutes at most
    value_template:  "{{ (( as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(state_attr('automation.drive_camera_motion', 'last_triggered')) | int(0) ) / 60 ) > 5 }}"
  action:
  - delay: 00:00:01 # first delay is allow time to move closer to camera, you can remove it
  - service: camera.snapshot
    data:
      entity_id: camera.front
      filename: '/config/www/snapshots/drive1.jpg'
  - delay: 00:00:01
  - service: camera.snapshot
    data:
      entity_id: camera.front
      filename: '/config/www/snapshots/drive2.jpg'
  - delay: 00:00:01
  - service: camera.snapshot
    data:
      entity_id: camera.front
      filename: '/config/www/snapshots/drive3.jpg'
  - service: notify.email
    data:
      title: 'Drive Movement'
      message: 'Drive movement detected'
      data:
        images:
          - /config/www/snapshots/drive1.jpg
          - /config/www/snapshots/drive2.jpg
          - /config/www/snapshots/drive3.jpg
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So you use HA’s automation, right?
and you have your cameras set up in your config or camera.yaml, I assume?
Motioneye allows me to add them to my configuration but since it also allows commands/webhooks, I just assumed there’s some way to do it directly, but I’m too dumb to figure it out.
I have everything set up in node-red but with this, I can probably cobble something together, I just needed some kind of direction, so thank you for pointing me in a direction!

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Yeah, I’ve never had the need to lean NodeRed and yes the cameras are configured in home assistant.

- platform: generic
  name: Front
  username: !secret camera_user
  password: !secret camera_password
  still_image_url: http://10.1.1.20/cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg
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So do you want help doing this in node red?

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Preferably, which is why I posted in the Node-Red forum but I’m open to alternatives.

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I use PushBullet to send Images to my phone, so you could do something super simple like this. I am just using an Inject Node to force this for testing but you can just change that to a state node for motion.

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So, I ended up getting something I liked going with pushbullet and motioneye’s “emulate_motion” commands and it all worked fabulously.
For a day.

Now, the mp4s that Node-red pushes to pushbullet wont play.
If I play them locally, they’re fine.
If I push to pushbullet via a service call in developer tools, they play.
But if Node-red pushes them, they wont play and it’s driving me mad. There is nothing in any error log indicating a problem.
Hopefully I can figure out what in the world is going on.