Camect not reliably alerting Home Assistant

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My D

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Jan 21, 2026, 4:38:10 PMJan 21
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I'm using the Camect integration through HACS in Home Assistant, and it sure seems like Camect is not reliably communicating motion events to HASS.

Does anyone have experience with best practices for integration of Camect to HASS? Experience with this problem?

I've got camect cameras streaming in HASS dashboards, but the following automation just never triggers. (I've also tried this by device IDs instead of entities, with the same results, or rather, lack of them.)

```
alias: Front Porch Camera Motion
description: prototype for all camera motion
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.front_porch_motion_2
    to:
      - "on"
conditions:
  - condition: device
    device_id: 249e41676a6817992966feb27e46d0d3
    domain: device_tracker
    entity_id: 0263339712c99b093a4e6c856e856ea0
    type: is_home
    enabled: true
actions:
  - action: browser_mod.popup
    metadata: {}
    data:
      title: Front Porch Motion
      dismissable: true
      autoclose: false
      content:
        type: picture-entity
        entity: camera.front_porch
        name: Front Porch
        timeout: 30000
        target: null
        device_id: d2ab9242428350849390ec3c451f9bc8
      browser_id:
        - d2ab9242428350849390ec3c451f9bc8
        - 9d7b0adcea0bb0ebf56afeddfd76473f
mode: single
```

My D

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Jan 21, 2026, 4:39:10 PMJan 21
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Looks like the formatting didn't come through, but the YAML is valid in HASS.
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