I have a working esp32-cam using ESPHome integrated into HA (HASSIO 0.93.1). I can see videos coming from the camera in the HA UI without problems. But I’m having difficulty storing a snapshot when I called the camera.snapshot service manually via the UI.
Although not sure why I would need this, based on comments I found on this forum, I also added
whitelist_external_dirs:
-/tmp
into my configuration.yaml file.
There’s no error when I clicked “call service,” but when I looked inside directory “/tmp” via the Configurator, the directory is empty. What am I doing wrong?
I’m using HASIO, so theoretically things should be relatively straight forward. Unfortunately, what I’m finding is that everything other than the simple vanilla stuff often requires extensive trial and error.
I’m not able to record to a file. I have a TTGO-Camera setup, it configured and working, but when I created the flow in NodeRed to record upon motion during a given timeframe, I get the following error:
“Call-service API error. Error Message: camera.hall_monitor does not support record service”
Is this related to my TTGO-Camera board, is it unable to record? Not sure how to troubleshoot. Here’s my flow:
I am on HASSIO… I am trying to snapshot from a working ESP32 cam w/ ESPHOME firmware and no imaged saved whatever the filename directory pointed (/config/www/tmp for example)
EDIT : problem solved …
Add the whitelist_external_dirs field in the homeassistant: in configuration.yaml
Hi @SeByDocKy, would you be so kind to give me a step by step guide on how to save pictures from my ESP cam, based on event trigger? I use ESP Home and Home Assistant OS. Thx