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				@@ -28,8 +28,19 @@ The best way to integrate with HomeAssistant is to use the [official integration 
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				 ### Notifications 
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				 Frigate publishes event information in the form of a change feed via MQTT. This allows lots of customization for notifications to meet your needs. Event changes are published with `before` and `after` information as shown [here](#frigateevents). 
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				+Note that some people may not want to expose frigate to the web, so you can leverage the HA API that frigate custom_integration ties into (which is exposed to the web, and thus can be used for mobile notifications etc): 
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				-Here is a simple example of a notification automation of events which will update the existing notification for each change. This means the image you see in the notification will update as frigate finds a "better" image. 
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				+To load an image taken by frigate from HomeAssistants API see below: 
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				+```  
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				+https://HA_URL/api/frigate/notifications/<event-id>/thumbnail.jpg 
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				+``` 
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				+To load a video clip taken by frigate from HomeAssistants API : 
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				+```  
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				+https://HA_URL/api/frigate/notifications/<event-id>/<camera>/clip.mp4 
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				+``` 
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				+Here is a simple example of a notification automation of events which will update the existing notification for each change. This means the image you see in the notification will update as frigate finds a "better" image.  
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				 ```yaml 
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				 automation: 
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				@@ -46,6 +57,7 @@ automation: 
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				             tag: '{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}' 
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				 ``` 
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				 ```yaml 
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				 automation: 
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				   - alias: When a person enters a zone named yard 
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