Frigate - Telegram Notification

frigate_telegram_notification.yaml

blueprint:
  name: Frigate - Telegram Notification
  description: Create automations to receive Snapshots and Clips from Frigate
  domain: automation
  input:
    camera:
      name: Frigate Camera
      description:
        The name of the camera as defined in your frigate configuration (/conf.yml).
    target_chat:
      name: Target
      description:
        "The chat_id to be used by the Telegram bot. !secret chat_id is
        not allowed on Blueprint, you will need the chat_id code."
    notification_photo:
      name: Disable photo notification
      description: "True/false for send the message with photo silently"
      default: false
      selector:
        boolean:
    notification_video:
      name: Disable video notification
      description: "True/false for send the message with video silently"
      default: false
      selector:
        boolean:
    message_caption:
      name: (Optional) The title of the photo\video
      description: User-friendly text
      default: "Motion detected:"
    message_tag:
      name: (Optional) Tag for sent message
      description: Can be usuful for your automation
      default: ""
    base_url:
      name: (Optional) Base URL
      description:
        The external url for your Home Assistant instance. This will default
        to a relative URL and will open the clips in the app instead of the browser,
        which may cause issues on some devices.
      default: ""
    zone_filter:
      name: (Optional) Zone Filter
      description: Only notify if object has entered a defined zone.
      default: false
      selector:
        boolean:
    zones:
      name: (Optional) Trigger Zones
      description: A list (-) of zones you wish to recieve notifications for.
      default: []
      selector:
        object: {}
    labels:
      name: (Optional) Trigger Objects
      description: A list (-) of objects you wish to recieve notifications for.
      default: []
      selector:
        object: {}
    presence_filter:
      name: (Optional) Presence Filter
      description: Only notify if selected presence entity is not "home".
      default: ""
      selector:
        entity: {}
  source_url: https://gist.github.com/dimitrystd/76770fee73496f928c7967be3842eb44
mode: single
max_exceeded: silent
trigger:
  platform: mqtt
  topic: frigate/events
  payload: !input "camera"
  value_template: "{{ value_json['after']['camera'] }}"
variables:
  id: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['id'] }}"
  camera: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['camera'] }}"
  camera_name: "{{ camera | replace('_', ' ') | title }}"
  target_chat: !input target_chat
  object: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['label'] }}"
  label: "{{ object | title }}"
  entered_zones: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['entered_zones'] }}"
  type: "{{ trigger.payload_json['type'] }}"
  base_url: !input base_url
  zone_only: !input zone_filter
  input_zones: !input zones
  zones: "{{ input_zones | list }}"
  input_labels: !input labels
  labels: "{{ input_labels | list }}"
  presence_entity: !input presence_filter
  message_caption: !input message_caption
condition:
  - "{{ type != 'end' }}"
  - "{{ not zone_only or entered_zones|length > 0 }}"
  - "{{ not zones|length or zones|select('in', entered_zones)|list|length > 0 }}"
  - "{{ not labels|length or object in labels }}"
  - "{{ not presence_entity or not is_state(presence_entity, 'home') }}"
action:
  - service: telegram_bot.send_photo
    alias: Send photo
    data:
      target: !input target_chat
      disable_notification: !input notification_photo
      caption: "{{message_caption}} {{ camera_name }}"
      url: "{{base_url}}/api/events/{{id}}/snapshot.jpg"
      message_tag: !input message_tag
  - repeat:
      sequence:
        - wait_for_trigger:
            - platform: mqtt
              topic: frigate/events
              payload: "{{ id }}"
              value_template: "{{ value_json['after']['id'] }}"
          timeout:
            minutes: 2
          continue_on_timeout: false
        - condition: template
          value_template: "{{ wait.trigger.payload_json['type'] == 'end' }}"
        - alias: Extra delay before getting video file
          delay: 5
        - service: telegram_bot.send_video
          alias: Send video
          data:
            target: !input target_chat
            disable_notification: !input notification_video
            caption: "{{message_caption}} {{ camera_name }}"
            url: "{{base_url}}/api/events/{{id}}/clip.mp4"
            timeout: 20
            message_tag: !input message_tag
      until: "{{ wait.trigger.payload_json['type'] == 'end' }}"

Changes

2022-07-18

• Added two options to control notification: notification_photo and notification_video
• Added options to control message_caption and message_tag. The last one is useful for external automation
• Formatted code with HA code conventions

2022-07-15

• Updated URLs for snapshot and video clip. My frigate (v0.9.4) and HTTP API documentation uses another URL pattern
• Use english string for caption
• Added 5 sec delay before downloading clip. I randomly got 404 status without it (no issues with the snapshot)