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Fixtâ€ĸŠ 2025
Updated: Apr 21, 2025—5 min read

Sentinel Sight 2.1 - Cloud and Local AI Vision in Home Assistant

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sentinel Sight 2PrerequisitesLLM Vision IntegrationEnable access to /config/www directoryInstall Visual Studio Code Add-onCreate Local To-DoHome Assistant Companion AppHome Assistant Internet AccessBefore you buy itSnapshotAI ProviderGPT4oGeminiOllamaNotificationMobile App NotificationOther Notify Service Notification

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Sentinel Sight V2.1

Sentinel Sight 2
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Prerequisites
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OpenAI Logo
Ollama Logo

LLM Vision Integration
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By valentinfrlch
Install
Open your Home Assistant instance and open a repository inside the Home Assistant Community Store.
Configure
Open your Home Assistant and show de integration menu

Enable access to /config/www directory
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homeassistant/configuration.yaml

homeassistant:
  allowlist_external_dirs:
    - /config/www

Install Visual Studio Code Add-on
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Open your Home Assistant instance and show the dashboard of a Supervisor add-on.

Create Local To-Do
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Open your Home Assistant and show de integration menu

Home Assistant Companion App
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Home Assistant Internet Access
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Only needed to be able to show the Image Preview and the Recording on the notifications using the Home Assistant Companion App
Open your Home Assistant instance and manage your systems network configuration.

Before you buy it
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Open your Home Assistant instance and show your service developer tools.

Snapshot
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Developer Tools/Services

service: camera.snapshot
data:
  filename: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_test1.jpg
target:
  entity_id: camera.YOUR_CAMERA

AI Provider
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GPT4o
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Developer Tools/Services

service: llmvision.image_analyzer
data:
  provider: OpenAI
  message: Tell me what you see in this image
  image_file: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_test1.jpg

Gemini
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Developer Tools/Services

service: llmvision.image_analyzer
data:
  provider: Google
  message: Tell me what you see in this image
  image_file: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_test1.jpg

Ollama
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Developer Tools/Services

service: llmvision.image_analyzer
data:
  provider: Ollama
  message: Tell me what you see in this image
  image_file: /config/www/tmp/snapshot_test1.jpg
  model: llava:latest

Notification
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Mobile App Notification
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Developer Tools/Services

service: notify.mobile_app_YOURDEVICE
data:
  title: Test Title
  message: Test AI message
  data:
    image: /local/tmp/snapshot_test1.jpg

Other Notify Service Notification
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Record a Video

service: camera.record
data:
  filename: /config/www/tmp/video_snapshot_test.mp4
  duration: 15
target:
  entity_id: camera.YOUR_CAMERA

Send notification with Video

service: notify.YOUR_NOTIFY_SERVICE
data:
  title: Test Title
  message: Test Message
  data:
    video:
      file: /config/www/tmp/video_snapshot_test.mp4

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Home-Assistant
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Tutorial
AI
Assistant
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