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title: "Automating Security Camera Notifications With Home Assistant and Ntfy"
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date: 2023-11-24
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# lastmod: 2023-11-23
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description: "This is a new post about..."
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series: Projects
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tags:
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- api
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- automation
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- homeassistant
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---
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A couple of months ago, I [wrote about](/easy-push-notifications-with-ntfy) how I was using a self-hosted instance of [ntfy](https://ntfy.sh) to help streamline notification pushes from a variety of sources. I closed that post with a quick look at how I had [integrated ntfy into my Home Assistant setup](/easy-push-notifications-with-ntfy/#home-assistant) for some basic notifications.
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I've now used that immense power to enhance the notifications I get from the security cameras scattered around my house. I'm using a [Reolink NVR with 8 PoE cameras](https://reolink.com/us/product/rlk16-820d8-a/). I selected Reolink cameras specifically because I knew it was supported by Home Assistant, and for the on-device animal/person/vehicle detection which allowed for a bit of extra control over which types of motion events would trigger a notification or other action. I've been very happy with this choice, but I have found that the Reolink app itself can be a bit clunky:
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- The app lets you send notifications on a schedule (I only want notifications from the indoor cameras during work hours when no one is home), but doesn't make it easy to override that schedule (like when it's a holiday and we're all at home anyway).
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- Push notifications don't include an image capture so when I receive a notification about a person in my backyard I have to open the app, go select the correct camera, select the Playback option, and scrub back and forth until I see whatever my camera saw.
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I figured I could combine the excellent [Reolink integration for Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/reolink) with Home Assistant's powerful Automation platform and ntfy to get more informative notifications and more flexible alert schedules. Here's the route I took.
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### Alert on motion detection
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{{% notice note "Ntfy Integration" %}}
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Since manually configuring ntfy in Home Assistant via the [RESTful Notifications integration](easy-push-notifications-with-ntfy/#notify-configuration), I found that a [ntfy-specific integration](https://github.com/ivanmihov/homeassistant-ntfy.sh) was available through the [Home Assistant Community Store](https://hacs.xyz/) addon. That setup is a bit more flexible so I've switched my setup to use it instead:
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```yaml
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# configuration.yaml
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notify:
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- name: ntfy
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platform: rest # [tl! --:8 collapse:8]
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method: POST_JSON
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headers:
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Authorization: !secret ntfy_token
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data:
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topic: home_assistant
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title_param_name: title
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message_param_name: message
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resource: ! secret ntfy_url
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platform: ntfy # [tl! ++:3]
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url: !secret ntfy_url
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token: !secret ntfy_token
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topic: home_assistant
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```
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{{% /notice %}}
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The Reolink integration exposes a number of entities for each camera. For triggering a notification on motion detection, I'll be interested in the [binary sensor](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/binary_sensor/) entities named like `binary_sensor.$location_$type` (like `binary_sensor.backyard_person` and `binary_sensor.driveway_vehicle`).
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So I'll craft start with a simple automation which will push out a notification whenever any of the listed cameras detect a person (or vehicle):
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```yaml
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# torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
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alias: Exterior Motion Alerts
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description: ""
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trigger:
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- platform: state
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entity_id:
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- binary_sensor.backyard_person
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- binary_sensor.driveway_person
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- binary_sensor.driveway_vehicle
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- binary_sensor.east_side_front_person
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- binary_sensor.east_side_rear_person
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- binary_sensor.west_side_person
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from: "off"
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to: "on"
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condition: []
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action:
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- service: notify.ntfy
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data:
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title: Motion detected!
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message: "{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }}"
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```
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{{% notice tip "Templating" %}}
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That last line is taking advantage of Jinja templating and [trigger variables](https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/templating/#state) so that the resulting notification displays the friendly name of whichever `binary_sensor` triggered the automation run. This way, I'll see something like "Backyard Person" instead of the entity ID listed earlier.
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{{% /notice %}}
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### Capture a snapshot
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Each Reolink camera also exposes a `camera.$location_sub` entity which represents the video stream from the connected camera. I can add another action to the notification so that it will grab a snapshot, but I'll also need a way to match the `camera` entity to the correct `binary_sensor` entity. I can do that by adding a variable set to the bottom of the automation:
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```yaml
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# torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
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alias: Exterior Motion Alerts
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description: ""
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trigger: # [tl! collapse:start]
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- platform: state
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entity_id:
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- binary_sensor.backyard_person
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- binary_sensor.driveway_person
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- binary_sensor.driveway_vehicle
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- binary_sensor.east_side_front_person
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- binary_sensor.east_side_rear_person
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- binary_sensor.west_side_person
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from: "off"
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to: "on" # [tl! collapse:end]
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condition: []
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action:
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- service: camera.snapshot # [tl! ++:start focus:start]
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target:
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entity_id: "{{ cameras[trigger.to_state.entity_id] }}"
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data:
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filename: /media/snaps/motion.jpg # [tl! ++:end focus:end]
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- service: notify.ntfy
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data:
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title: Motion detected!
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message: "{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name }}"
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variables: # [tl! ++:start focus:start]
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cameras:
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binary_sensor.backyard_person: camera.backyard_sub
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binary_sensor.driveway_person: camera.driveway_sub
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binary_sensor.driveway_vehicle: camera.driveway_sub
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binary_sensor.east_side_front_person: camera.east_side_front_sub
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binary_sensor.east_side_rear_person: camera.east_side_rear_sub
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binary_sensor.west_side_person: camera.west_side_sub # [tl! ++:end focus:end]
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```
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