Just wanna make sure that we are talking about the same …
“Including application logo and images contained in the notification”. I was talking about an image to be sent. You were talking about the icon, right?
speaking of the icon, I am not sure what happened but the home assistant icon has been missing on the notification. not sure where it went but havent seen it in a month or so.
Ok, then we’re talking of something different. I wasn’t aware that it’s now possible to send images, except when using them as an icon. Good to know.
@dshokouhi
Yes, what once was the Home Assistant logo has been replaced by a transparent pixel. That what I was referring to with the pull request mentioned above. The architecture of Home Assistant has slightly changed internally, which lead to some trouble. In the end I had problems making my code work with the security-requirements that restrict which files can be accessed. To get it working quickly (the platform was broken with the original image file not being where it used to be) we’ve decided to just hardcode the transparent pixel.
Hi,
I tried to send a notification with an image. It work with an url image takne somewhere on internet but it does not display a camera image from HA.
Do you know a way to do that ?
Depending on your camera you should have a service called camera.snapshot, which you can call with the service-data {"entity_id":"camera.mycamera", "filename":"/path/to/targetfile.jpg"}.
Once you have done that you can use that path for the notification you want to send to your TV. I have not tried if this really works, but I don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t.
Did you ever get this to work? Text works for me, but I tried with no success to get the picture working.
It would be ideal to be able to show a shot of a security camera with the notification.
action:
- service: notify.nfabcd
data:
message: "Some message"
data:
duration: 5
fontsize: small
file:
url: http://snapshot-url.of.my/camera
username: user
password: secret
This of course requires a camera that provides an URL where a still image can be fetched. If you have your camera in Home Assistant you can also use the snapshot service to save the snapshot and use a file location when calling the notification service.
I’ll have to play with it some more. I finally did get it to work using the snapshot URL from my blue iris install, but was trying to get it to work with the HA camera proxy…which I couldn’t do.
This is what didn’t work for me: http://192.168.0.111:8123/api/camera_proxy/camera.driveway
I don’t know much about the camera proxy, but I assume it outputs MJPEG. And the mechanism of how the notification platform grabs the image is to download it. Which won’t work with a stream because it’s endless. So ideally the camera proxy should be extended to also provide a still image via some url. But that’s unrelated to this platform.
Thanks for this!
Got this to work easily for sending text messages.
For sending images it was a bit more work. Here is what I came across:
If you have images in <HAconfigDir>/www/images/X.jpg then specifying a path of /local/images/X.jpg doesn’t work. You’ll get an error about the file is not secure to load data from! You’ll need to specify the full path name <HAconfigDir>/www/images/X.jpg.
If the image is rather large, it won’t work with the default timeout. I get a requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout sending to the FireTV. The solution is to increase the timeout to around 10 to 20 seconds. Note: This also applied to using a URL to get to my IP camera which generates a rather large image.
@wmaker Can you provide details of your automation.yaml? I’m trying to get this to work on RP3 running latest version of HASSIO for sending a text with image to my Android device. Can’t seem to get image to send
notify:
- platform: nfandroidtv
name: Kitchen #service will be notify.kitchen
host: 192.168.1.12 #FireTV IP address
timeout: 10 #larger timeout needed for large images.
Here is an automation example:
- alias: Test
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: input_boolean.test
action:
- service: notify.kitchen
data:
message: "Message Text!"
title: "My Notification"
data:
duration: 10
position: center
file:
path: "/home/USERNAME/.homeassistant/www/FILENAME.jpg"
@wmaker thanks for sharing your setup. I think my path is different for HASSOS. Using “/home/USERNAME/.homeassistant/www/images/FILENAME.jpg” gives an error in my home-assistant.log file of “Can’t write /home/USERNAME/.homeassistant/www/images/Den.jpg, no access to path!” Using “/config/www/images/Den.jpg” gives no error in the log file but I still can’t get the image to send to text message. I even increased the duration to 20 and still no luck… Not sure why this won’t work.
alias: Send SMS on Den Motion
description: Sends SMS and pic of den on motion detected and not home.
trigger:
- entity_id: binary_sensor.nyce_3041_0a8d8350_1_1280
platform: state
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: device_tracker.my_wrkph
state: not_home
action:
- data:
entity_id: camera.Den
filename: /config/www/images/Den.jpg
service: camera.snapshot
- data:
data:
duaration: 20
file:
path: /config/www/imagesZ/Den.jpg
fontsize: small
message: 'Motion detected: Den20'
service: notify.sms_alert
The file gets saved as expected, but it won’t send the file.
What does your configuration.yaml look like for notify?
Its not the duration in the service call, its the timeout in the configuration that needs to be increased.
