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Tweaked it a bit for my own needs with unifi protect integration so I can notify via html5 on my desktop(s). This uses the unifi api url from the camera so it doesn’t need to store a temporary photo.
blueprint:
name: Send a camera snapshot when motion event type is detected
description: 'This automation blueprint creates a camera snapshot if general motion or a specific motion event object is detected and
sends a notification to your phone with the picture.'
domain: automation
input:
motion_sensor:
name: Motion sensor
description: The sensor which triggers the snapshot creation
selector:
entity:
domain: binary_sensor
device_class: motion
event_object:
name: Event detection type
description: Type of object to detect from a motion event
default: None Identified
selector:
select:
options:
- None Identified
- person
- car
camera:
name: Camera
description: The camera which creates the snapshot
selector:
entity:
domain: camera
notify_device:
name: Device to notify
description: Service used for notifications eg. notify.html5_device_name
selector:
text:
notification_title:
name: Notification title (Optional)
description: 'Default: "Motion detected!"'
default: Motion detected!
notification_message:
name: Notification message (Optional)
description: 'Default: "{{ motion_sensor_name }} detected movement!"'
default: '{{ motion_sensor_name }} detected movement!'
delay:
name: Delay (Optional)
description: Wait before creating camera snapshot
default: ''
selector:
number:
min: 0.0
max: 60.0
unit_of_measurement: seconds
mode: slider
step: 1.0
source_url: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/send-camera-snapshot-notification-on-motion/254565
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: !input 'motion_sensor'
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: !input 'motion_sensor'
attribute: event_object
state: !input event_object
variables:
motion_sensor: !input 'motion_sensor'
motion_sensor_name: '{{ states[motion_sensor].name }}'
camera: !input 'camera'
snapshot_url: '{{ states[camera].attributes.entity_picture}}'
notify_device: !input 'notify_device'
notification_title: !input 'notification_title'
notification_message: !input 'notification_message'
delay: !input 'delay'
action:
- delay: '{{ delay }}'
- service: '{{ notify_device }}'
data:
message: '{{ notification_message }}'
title: '{{ notification_title }}'
data:
tag: alert
image: '{{ snapshot_url }}'
url: '{{ snapshot_url }}'
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Hi, did you solve this issue? I got the same error
Hi All,
I managed to get it to work (I get the snapshot).
The only issue I have is that the “delay” portion doesn’t work.
I get an error message in the homeassistant.log:
“ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.homeassistant.triggers.state] Error rendering ‘New Automation’ for template: offset off should be format ‘HH:MM’, ‘HH:MM:SS’ or ‘HH:MM:SS.F’”
I tried to replace the 0.0 to 00:00:00 (in the blueprint yaml file) but no luck.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Same error for me. I wish to have zero delay. “… camera snapshot when motion is detected: Error rendering … camera snapshot when motion is detected delay template: offset should be format ‘HH:MM’, ‘HH:MM:SS’ or ‘HH:MM:SS.F’”
Any easy way to put a denounce in the motion trigger? Love this blueprint, just get a lot of notifications.
I solved putting to “1” the value in the Delay slider.
Hope it helps.
SoL
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Hi Vorion, Hi everyone,
the BP works nicely, thank you for your work.
I’m running HA Version core-2021.4.6, Home Assistant OS on Proxmox VM.
Sensors and notifications work fine, but I wanted to save the snapshots in media folder (/media/snapshots), so I changed the .yaml into:
snapshot_create_file_path: /media/snapshots/snapshot_{{ states[camera].object_id }}.jpg
snapshot_access_file_path: ‘{{ snapshot_create_file_path | replace(’’/media/snapshots’’,’’/local’’) }}’
The ‘snapshot_create_file_path’ is correct, it saves the picture files in /media/snapshots and I can open the images in HA media browser.
The ‘snapshot_access_file_path’ is NOT correct (I tried different solutions, this is just one of those), I receive correctly the notification but WITHOUT the screenshot.
Can you help in defining ‘snapshot_access_file_path’?
Thank you
SoL
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Hi.
I just approached blueprints, this is the first one I’m tryng.
I also would need a condition based on a selectable input_boolean.
How can I add it?
Thanks.
In case it helps any other relatively new users to Home Assistant like me - After I added this blueprint and created the automation, I had to restart Core before I was able to access the camera snapshot URL. Until I restarted Core, I was getting a 404 error for the snapshot URL.
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Thanks for sharing.
If we want to add more possible entities as a trigger to take the snapshot and send the notification, then should be like this:
(In my case doesn’t work. It happens the same, only motion sensors are available to select within drop-down entity list. What am I doing wrong? - Thanks )
blueprint:
name: Send a camera snapshot when motion is detected
description: 'This automation blueprint creates a camera snapshot if motion is detected and
sends a notification to your phone with the picture.
'
domain: automation
input:
binary_sensor:
name: Binary sensor
description: The sensor wich triggers the snapshot creation
selector:
entity:
domain: binary_sensor
device_class: motion
camera:
name: Camera
description: The camera which creates the snapshot
selector:
entity:
domain: camera
notify_device:
name: Device to notify
description: Device needs to run the official Home Assistant app to receive
notifications
selector:
device:
integration: mobile_app
is_ios:
name: Is it an iOS device?
description: Toggle if your selected device runs iOS, default is Android
selector:
boolean: {}
default: false
notification_title:
name: Notification title (Optional)
description: 'Default: "Motion detected!"'
default: Motion detected!
notification_message:
name: Notification message (Optional)
description: 'Default: "{{ binary_sensor_name }} detected movement!"'
default: '{{ binary_sensor_name }} detected movement!'
delay:
name: Delay (Optional)
description: Wait before creating camera snapshot
default: ''
selector:
number:
min: 0.0
max: 60.0
unit_of_measurement: seconds
mode: slider
step: 1.0
source_url: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/send-camera-snapshot-notification-on-motion/254565
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: !input 'binary_sensor'
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
variables:
binary_sensor: !input 'binary_sensor'
binary_sensor_name: '{{ states[binary_sensor].name }}'
camera: !input 'camera'
notify_device: !input 'notify_device'
is_ios: !input 'is_ios'
notification_title: !input 'notification_title'
notification_message: !input 'notification_message'
delay: !input 'delay'
snapshot_create_file_path: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_{{ states[camera].object_id
}}.jpg
snapshot_access_file_path: '{{ snapshot_create_file_path | replace(''/config/www'',''/local'')
}}'
action:
- delay: '{{ delay }}'
- service: camera.snapshot
entity_id: !input 'camera'
data:
filename: '{{ snapshot_create_file_path }}'
- device_id: !input 'notify_device'
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: '{{ notification_title }}'
message: '{{ notification_message }}'
data: '{% set android_data = {"image": "%s"} | format(snapshot_access_file_path)
%} {% set ios_data = {"attachment": {"url": "%s", "content_type": "JPEG"}} | format(snapshot_access_file_path)
%} {{ ios_data if is_ios else android_data }}'
would there be a way to set a timer in between notifications? id like one when my kid goes outside, but not every 2 seconds like im getting now because it’s still seeing movement
Hi.
Is there a way to edit this blueprint, so you can use persistent.create ?
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I’m trying to do the same, did you find any solution?
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How can I modify the blueprint to save all the snapshots without rewriting the old ones?
In the BP i added date and time to the file name. Maybe that helps.
snapshot_create_file_path: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/www/tmp/snapshot_{{ states[camera].object_id }}_{{ now().strftime("%d-%m-%Y_%H-%M-%S") }}.jpg
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and to prevent file flood after x time. i have delete custom integration scheduled for house keeping
alias: Delete camera shots na 24 uur
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '01:00'
condition: []
action:
- service: delete.files_in_folder
data:
folder: /config/www/shots
time: 604800
mode: single
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Dont think it work like that. The ‘local’ in URL that is exposed from webserver is mapped to www directory. So just placing snaps outside www dir, make it unaccessible through /local.
what is your need to have it in media dir?
In (Home assistant core) configuration.yaml i created a shell_command to delete old snapshots. Everyday on midnight i call this shell_command in a automation to delete snapshots older then 1 day.
configuration.yaml
shell_command:
delete_old_snapshots: "find /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/www/tmp/* -type f -mmin +1440 -name snapshot* -exec rm {} -f \\;"
automations.yaml
alias: Verwijder oude snapshots.
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: time
at: 0:00
condition: []
action:
- service: shell_command.delete_old_snapshots
mode: single
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Hi this works great, but is there any way to send to telegram (I have telegram notify set up and working in ha already). The reason being if I happen to click on the notification it just goes away and I can’t see the picture again. If it sent to my telegram ha bot I would’ve had a history of snapshots.
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