Videos in notifications

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Hi, i hope someone can help me to answer this simple Question:
Support the android app videos in notifications?

I can get it to work with images, but with videos i have no luck.
Here is my service-call:

service: notify.mobile_app_xxx
data:
  message: front camera
  title: something
  data:
    video: /local/camera.mp4

Thank you

2

have you already checked here?

3

Yes, unfortunatly this is only for iOS.
The Docs for Standard-Attachments says, that Android can send videos…

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look at the logs it could be that you put too long of a video in, make sure to check the note on the page

5

Hi any luck getting the video files in the notifications for Android.

6

Also checking on the status for video notifications in Android. I know other apps do it without issue (i.e. Nest app on Android + Nest Cameras), is it something I can do with an automation like this? HA_blueprints/Frigate Camera Notifications/Beta at 4c336f28d770497fc116f77dca85f19a39b48532 · SgtBatten/HA_blueprints · GitHub

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@Whag & @Carve please refer to the link I posted above both of your comments. Here it is again for convenience sake. Make sure to look for the android icon to differentiate whats for iOS and whats for Android.

https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-attachments/

8

Just wanted to share what I needed to do to get this working. It turns out my nest cameras were recording videos in an encoding that wouldn’t play in my notifications. I verified this by trying a different test video from another source and that worked.

So I wrote a shell command to run ffmpeg that coverts the file to mp42. This ended up getting things to work.

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Any chance you can show exactly how you got this to work? I’d like to see the code for the shell command if possible.