Making my first Automation - On the action "Call service" The YAML I use doesn't stay when I press Save button

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I am new to Home Assistant, and making my first automation. For the Trigger I have Ring Doorbell motion and for the action I set it to delay for 2 minutes and “call a service” (downloader) so that I can have it download the last video made into the folder “downloads” that I make on HA.

But when I click the 3 buttons to the right, and select “Edit in YAM” and make my modifications when I press save, the entire automation is saved, but none of the changes I made in the YAML for the call a server downloader remains. It goes back to the default.

I took a screen capture video to show exactly what I am talking about. You can’t see me press the save button in the video for some reason, but it’s a blue button on the bottom right of the screen and I press it.

https://customperfect.com/ha-help-automation.mp4

Also, I have tried this in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave Browsers. All with the same results.

This is my version of HA

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Possibly your yaml is incorrect and it is being rejected.

Have you tried it in the dev tools?

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Your video is http: not https:
Try editing the whole automation in yaml, click on the meatball menu at the top right.

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Good call. I didn’t realize that if the yaml is not correct it wouldn’t save.

I put it in Sutio Code Server and as someone else pointed out, you can’t use double quotes inside double quotes.

Thanks.