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title, description, ha_category, ha_iot_class, ha_release, ha_domain
| title | description | ha_category | ha_iot_class | ha_release | ha_domain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi Camera | Instructions on how to integrate Raspberry Pi within Home Assistant. |
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Local Polling | 0.17 | rpi_camera |
The rpi_camera platform allows you to integrate the Raspberry Pi camera into Home Assistant. This integration uses the application raspistill to store the image from camera.
Configuration
To enable this camera in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
- platform: rpi_camera
{% configuration %} image_width: description: Set the image width. required: false type: integer default: 640 name: description: Name of the camera. required: false type: string default: Raspberry Pi Camera image_height: description: Set the image height. required: false type: integer default: 480 image_quality: description: Set the image quality (from 0 to 100). required: false type: integer default: 7 image_rotation: description: Set image rotation (0-359). required: false type: integer default: 0 horizontal_flip: description: Set horizontal flip (0 to disable, 1 to enable). required: false type: integer default: 0 vertical_flip: description: Set vertical flip (0 to disable, 1 to enable). required: false type: integer default: 0 timelapse: description: Takes a picture every this many milliseconds (thousands of a second) - the default means one picture a second. required: false type: integer default: 1000 file_path: description: Save the picture in a custom file path. required: false type: string default: A temporary file is used. {% endconfiguration %}
The given file_path must be an existing file because the camera platform setup performs a writeable check on it. Also, keep in mind that the path should be whitelisted.