Sensor to detect new file via local/FTP

[rpitera (Robert Pitera)]

Take a look at this post, it may be of help:

Anyone install a USB Webcam as a Security Camera?

I success that but without HA I proceed like that a shell called cameranotify.sh #!/bin/sh find /tmp -name "lastsnap_motion.jpg" -mmin -1 > /tmp/motion_age.txt if test -s /tmp/motion_age.txt then /usr/bin/python3.4 /home/pi/.homeassistant/scripts/cameranotify.py fi The python from Attach photo in notification And a crontab which runs the shell script each minute … If the pic is newer than 1 minute, execute the python script. problem HA is not aware about that …