Reolink + iOS + Home Assistant snapshot notifications

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So, having zero experience with anything code related, I have completed my very first yaml edit and am very excited so please don’t come at me for celebrating this novice hurdle. for anyone interested, I followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBYY5oXJyM&t=1s but I used HA’s cloud and couldn’t figure out the server info then I remembered the host referenced Paul Hibberts video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI3lhgOiZ-8 . so I followed info in that and viola, got it working. so if you are like me and have no working knowledge of yaml and used the HA cloud, follow those two videos and they should get you going. a couple of notes, do not use any port info, just paste the long server info. and second, his app looks different but basically go the companion app, click your name, paste the info in the internal URL section. hope this helps someone.

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Hello aneye4aneye977,

Awesome!
Feel free to share it if you like.
Anyone staying away from the AI trap is on the right road in my book.

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nice!

can you share your YAML?

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so this is the yaml from speak to the geek’s video. I needed to follow along with the video, because, you know, I am learning…

alias: Send Rich Notification When Reolink Doorbell Is Pressed
description: “”
triggers:

  • trigger: state
    entity_id:
    • binary_sensor.YOUR_TRIGGER_SENSOR_HERE
      to: “on”
      conditions:
      actions:
  • action: camera.snapshot
    metadata: {}
    data:
    filename: /config/www/snapshots/FILENAME_HERE.jpg
    target:
    entity_id: camera.YOUR_CAMERA_FEED_HERE
  • delay:
    hours: 0
    minutes: 0
    seconds: 2
    milliseconds: 0
  • action: notify.mobile_app_YOUR_DEVICE_HERE
    data:
    message: Someone is at the door
    data:
    url: fb1675493782511558://
    image: https://YOUR_EXTERNAL_URL_HERE:YOUR__EXTERNAL_PORT_HERE/local/snapshots/FILENAME_HERE.jpg
    mode: single
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Going forward, please post your code using the forum standards

:one::one: Format it properly

When sharing the code, share it as text and not an image. When you do that, remember that spacing is critical in YAML, and if you just throw the code on the page then it’ll look ugly and nobody will know if the problem is because of spacing. We need you to use code blocks and appropriate markup.

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sorry, will read up and learn to do that. thanks for the guidance