Is there a way for automation to enumerate files in a directory and pick first one?

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Sorry I’m no expert and this is a response off the back of a quick google

Maybe Folder Watcher - Home Assistant is what you’re looking for, filtering for file events that have been ‘created’

Some community examples

Getting the last added file with folder_watcher

Both of you are correct… if you want to use the basic motion detection. However that gives me a lot of false positives so i decided to use the IVS / Smart detection the camera has by itself. Dahua cams also have things like tripwire / intrusion detection and that gives me way much less false poositives (better said, none) so i would realy like to use the camera motion detection. It just works better than the “normal” motion detection that’s part of the onfiv standard. I have it running now, im…