Node RED sending Pushover message with images

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Can someone suggest how I would attach an image to a Node-RED Pushover message.

I have an image located /config/www/pics/test.png. Using a script and HA’s integration I can make this work, but in Node Red, I am stumped. I don’t see how I can add the image to this push message.

This flow works but I have not been able to add an image.

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After a great deal of trial and error I found a way to pull this off.

There are 2 different types of Pushover nodes. One is a plug-in from Node-red and the other is the API from Home Assistant. I found that the blue one works with images. I could not get the green one to send the image even thought the help file says it supports msg.attachment. In this example I used msg.image in the function/template node.

Being new to Node Red, I am not sure if there is a nicer way to share flows that shows the details of each node. If anyone does please chime in.

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Same as you @braindrain, which is a huge bummer because that means I can’t send images from HA Dev tools by using the Pushover Integration. Especially because they are deprecating the yaml setup - which used to be able to send images - I can’t use appdaemon anymore with Pushover to send images. If anyone knows why the node-red Pushover node works and not the HA Pushover Integration node… that would be great. I’m trying to recreate in Appdaemon.

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Just spent some time with the Pushover nodes today because I wanted to start using Priority.

You have the three Pushover nodes available

  1. node-red-node-pushover - the “official” node
  2. node-red-contrib-pushover
  3. node-red-contrib-pushover-inline-image

2 & 3 seem to be subsets of 1. The only differences I see is 2 & 3 have a timestamp function but I add in my timestamp using the native Home Assistant variables. They all have the ability to add images - 2 passes it with msg.image and 1 & 3 use msg.attachment.

Here’s my function node that I use for testing nodes 1 & 2 concurrently:

var payload = msg.payload
if (payload == 'image') {
    msg.payload = 'Test sending message with image'
    msg.payload = msg.payload + " at " + new Date().toString();
    msg.image = "/media/Images/Beevis.JPG"
    msg.attachment = "/media/Images/Beevis.JPG"
   return msg
}

Just wire an inject node to send “image” to the input of the function node and the output of the function node to your Pushover node of choice. I have both msg.image and msg.attachment in the code for testing both Pushover nodes concurrently.

I couldn’t test number 3 because it has a conflict with number 2 and won’t allow installation.

They should all work with images. I had been using number 2 but the gui for number 1 has been much improved, and I see it has been updated one month ago while the others are 5-6 years ago.