Regex in automation action not working

Configuration
1

I cannot figure out why my automation is failing to load correctly. When using the developer tools services feature it works flawlessly but when I try to save as an action in automation the image value is changed to null as in image: null

service: notify.mobile_app_myphone
data:
message: Test
data:
image: {{ “/media/temp.jpg” |regex_replace(find=“media/”, replace=“media/local/”, ignorecase=False) }}

I need this because the folder_watcher states the true path but notify add /local.

Please help!

2

Are you sure your result look look like:

"/media/local/temp.jpg"

not:

"/local/media/temp.jpg"

?

Try the following:

service: notify.mobile_app_myphone
data:
  message: Test
  data_template:
    image: "{{ '/media/temp.jpg' |regex_replace(find='media/', replace='local/media/', ignorecase=False) }}"

And please use the “formatted text”-option to post code in future :wink:

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3

What the heck? Yeah what is posted there definitely would not have worked correctly. I did confirm that what I have entered is correct.

service: notify.mobile_app_jjwa40
data:
 message: Test
 data:
   image: {{ "/media/temp.jpg" |regex_replace(find="media/", replace="media/local/", ignorecase=False) }}
4

Additionally I created a template as a means to work around the problem. The template has the correct defined path but when I attempt to leverage the template in the notify automation action the notification never sends.

5

Weird I’m looking at my original post and it is not backwards like you have it. Maybe its because I didn’t format the text.