Saving to a network drive

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I am trying to get an automation to save a camera stream to a network drive, and I have it attempting to save to something like this:

smb://workgroup;user:[email protected]/sharefolder/file.mp4

but it is not working:

Error executing script. Unexpected error for call_service at pos 1: Can't write smb://workgroup;user:[email protected]/sharefolder/file.mp4, no access to path!

Anyone have any idea if this is even possible?

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I wouldn’t know why it shouldn’t be possible. The only thing I know is that “workgroup” is optional. And the error states that it can’t access path, which is the part “/sharefolder/”. Is that correct? And does that user have write permission to that folder?

3

smb://blah… is not a linux thing. You should probably mount the filesystem then write to the mount point.

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Got it, thanks. Hopefully HA can mount an network drive

5

That’s going to depend on your installation method. You will find it very difficult (if not impossible) with Home Assistant OS.