Email a picture from the local network

SmartApps & Automations Automation Ideas
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Hello all,

Any idea if it would be possible to have a routine that when run would send an email with a file taken from the local network?
File would have always the same name, at same location, with same login and password.

Thanks!

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There are several ways to do this, but one of the easiest is with IFTTT. You can use either the “email” service or the “Gmail” service if you have a Gmail account. With email service there is a limit of 750 sent emails per day.

So you would use SmartThings as the “if” and the email service as the “that” in your IFTTT applet.

You can set up a virtual switch on the SmartThings side and then automate the turning on of that switch if you want.

There are other ways to do it as well, but I think this is the easiest. There may be a lag of up to 15 minutes if you go through IFTTT, though, so I don’t know if that meets your use case.

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The most problematic part is attaching the file from the local network as anything IFTTT would be run from outside and would not have access to the file…

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If you have a Mac lying around you could use HAM Bridge to run a script to send the email that could be triggered from SmartThings.

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Might have found even better!
The image in question was from a camera, but I realised that someone wrote a smart app to link with Synology Surveillance Station. Let’s see how I can work from there

I can take a pic from the app. Now let’s see if I can trigger this and email this picture :slight_smile:

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Any luck? I’m trying to find a way to have ST send me a picture it takes from a camera.