RIng Stick Up Cam Picture Snapshot

Configuration
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So I’m trying to get HA to send me a camera snapshot from my Ring Stick-Up cam. It works, but the delay in the automation doesn’t seem to be working and I don’t know why.

When I get the notifications they are usually all blown-out white as when the camera is first activated it takes a second or two to normalise to the light conditions, hence the delay.

My automation is below

- id: motion_at_front_door
  alias: Motion at Front Door
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.front_door_motion
    to: 'on'
  action:
  - service: camera.snapshot
    data_template:
      entity_id: camera.front_door
      filename: 'www/snapshots/front_door_camera_{{ now().strftime("%d%m%Y-%H%M") }}.jpg'
  - delay: '00:00:05'
  - service: notify.mobile_app_dans_iphone_7
    data_template:
      message: 'Motion at Front Door - Video Being Processed {{now().strftime("%H:%M")}} '
      data:
        attachment:
          content-type: jpeg
          url: 'https://xxxxxxx/local/snapshots/front_door_camera_{{ now().strftime("%d%m%Y-%H%M") }}.jpg'
  - delay: '00:00:10'

Can anyone suggest anything?

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Hello daan_vb. Sorry I can’t answer your question and hope by now you figured it out. But I’m hoping you might be able to help me capture a snapshot from my Ring doorbell camera, using HomeAssistant installed on a virtual box on my rPi. I keep getting errors that I have no access to path when I’ve opened everything up with the permissions. Did you have anything similar before you got this far? I have been able to grab videos without a problem and downloaded them to files even outside the virtual box. I just can’t get camera.snapshot to work. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

3

Hi Rosanne_Lynn,

I stopped using the snapshot function as it didn’t really work. I found it only captured snapshots from the first frame of the previous video file so was in essence, useless.