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The rpi_camera platform allows you to integrate the Raspberry Pi camera into Home Assistant. This component uses the application raspistill to store the image from camera.
{% linkable_title 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.