@tung256 wrote:
using Dev Tools/Services tab, i have:
service: camera.snapshot
entity: camera.armcrest_camera
data: entity_id: camera.amcrest_camera
filename: ‘/tmp/armcrest_camera_{{ now().strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") }}.jpg’i was expecting to see the file here: /home/tung/.homeassistant/tmp
BUT
error log shows: Can’t write /tmp/armcrest_camera_20200117-142600.jpg, no access to path!i put this in config yaml as well but it did not help:
whitelist_external_dirs:
- /tmp/this is on ubuntu with HA installed via Python venv. all the tutorials i saw was for HassIO
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