Record a video with timestamp and send it via telegram after finished

[villah]

Hi there,

I am trying to record a video with timestamp calling to Home Assistant service:

{"filename":"/config/www/cam1_records/{{entity_id.name}}_{{now().strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')}}.mp4"}

That's ok, no problem, video is created and stored. The problem comes when I want to send that video to Telegram. I couldn't manage to find a way to send the video because I fail to find a method to send the name of the video file accordingly because the name change with time. I have to wait 35s to finish the video recording.

I tried to send data field to the telegram node (output) but it sent in the same format as I put in the record call service so I suposse that when the telegram node generate the name of the file, as time as changed, it is not going to find the file.

I tried with fixed name and it works perfect so I suposse I need to find a way to send the final file name to the telegram node to work.

I want to keep the timestamp for data storage purposes.

Any idea? Not very skilled with node red.

Thank you!

[Colin]

Create the filename first in the flow before you send it to the HA node. Then you can send that same name to the Telegram node.

[villah]

Ok Colin, done. Thank you for your advice!