Working automation with Pushover and HA with attachments?

[biggen1684]

The built-in HA notifications don't always send immediately to my phone. Even using ttl and priority I still don't get consistent immediate notifications so I wanted to play around with using Pushover. I can get notifications but no attachments. Here is my config:

automation:
  - alias: "driveway notification"
    trigger:
      platform: mqtt
      topic: frigate/events
    condition: 
      - "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['label'] == 'person' }}"
      - "{{ ( as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(state_attr('automation.driveway_notfication', 'last_triggered')) |int(0) ) > 45 }}"
    action:            
      - service: notify.rodman_phone
        data_template:
          message: 'A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected in the driveway.'
          data:
            attachment: 'http://10.200.200.65:5000/events/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}/snapshot.jpg'

I'm not getting the attachment however. Its probably because of the attachment and it being wrong. What am I missing here?

[hawkeye217]

You likely need the public address of your HA instance instead of 10.200.200.65.

[biggen1684]

Well this is all internal testing so that should work.

[biggen1684]

I've also tried this as the action:

action:            
      - service: notify.rodman_phone
        data:
          message: 'A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected in the driveway.'
          data:
            attachment: 'http://10.200.200.54:5000/driveway/person/best.jpg'

And that doesn't work either. That is the frigate installation which has the HTTP endpoints. I also know that the attachment address is valid because I can see the best.jpg from my laptop.

Again, I'm getting the notifications but not the attachment.

Strange.

[blakeblackshear]

Try using a public jpg file to make sure this is actually a frigate specific issue.

[asemev]

i have exactly the same issue (i know, i reported already - sorry). i just cant get the snapshot attached to the notifications (internally in my wifi or from the outside). I have been trying several things for days but to no avail.

alias: Notify Person Detection
description: ''
trigger:

• platform: mqtt
  topic: frigate/events
  condition: []
  action:
• service: notify.notify
  data_template:
  message: 'A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected.'
  data:
  image: >-
  "https://asemev.duckdns.org/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}.jpg?format=android"
  tag: '{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}'
  mode: single

Direct IP address entry also doesnt work:

action:

• service: notify.notify
  data_template:
  message: 'A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected.'
  data:
  image: >-
  "http://192.168.178.84:5000/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}.jpg?format=android"
  tag: '{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}'
  mode: single

(sorry to post my issue here again)
-asemev

[msekoranja]

I had the same problem. I have checked pushover notification integration code and it just does not handle URLs as attachment (the documentation states that it does).

What I did is the following:

shell_command:
  url_to_file: "curl {{ url }} -o {{ to_file }}"

- id: car_at_entrance
  alias: Car at entrance
  trigger:
    platform: mqtt
    topic: frigate/events
  condition:
    - condition: template
      value_template: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['camera'] == 'entrance' }}"
    - condition: template
      value_template: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['label'] == 'car' }}"
    - condition: template   # only notify once every 5 minutes
      value_template: "{{ ( as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(state_attr('automation.car_at_entrance', 'last_triggered'))|float(0) ) > 300 }}"
  action:
    - service: shell_command.url_to_file
      data_template:
        url: "http://<ha ip>:5000/events/{{trigger.payload_json['after']['id']}}/snapshot.jpg"
        to_file: "/config/snapshots/frigate.jpg"
    - service: notify.pushover
      data_template:
        title: "Car at entrance"
        message: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['label'] }} with score {{  trigger.payload_json['after']['top_score'] }}"
        data:
          sound: siren
          priority: 1
          attachment: "/config/snapshots/frigate.jpg"

[biggen1684]

I ended up doing something similar but used the integrated HA Downloader service to first download the snapshot from Frigate locally to HA, and then attach it to pushover. Thanks for the help!

[wpeterw]

You can not add an attachment with Pushover: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/g6ps6u/home_assistant_pushover_notifications_has_stopped/

Use Telegram instead.

[biggen1684]

You can not add an attachment with Pushover: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/g6ps6u/home_assistant_pushover_notifications_has_stopped/

Use Telegram instead.

I'm using Pushover with it, but as noted, you have to use the HA Downloader service to first download the snapshot from Frigate first and then attach with Pushover. You just can't use an external URL with Pushover any longer.