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title: "Raspberry Pi Camera"
description: "Instructions how to integrate Raspberry Pi within Home Assistant."
date: 2016-04-08 10:00
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logo: raspberry-pi.png
ha_category: Camera
ha_iot_class: "Local Polling"
ha_release: 0.17
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The `rpi` platform allows you to integrate the Raspberry Pi camera into Home Assistant. This component uses the application [`raspistill`](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/camera/raspicam/raspistill.md) to store the image from camera.

To enable this camera in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
camera:
  platform: rpi_camera
  name: Raspberry Pi Camera
  image_width: 640
  image_height: 480
  image_quality: 7
  image_rotation: 0
  timelapse: 1000
  horizontal_flip: 0
  vertical_flip: 0
  file_path: /tmp/image.jpg
```

Configuration variables:

 - **name** (*Optional*): Name of the camera
 - **image_width** (*Optional*): Set the image width (default: 640)
 - **image_height** (*Optional*): Set the image height (default: 480)
 - **image_quality** (*Optional*): Set the image quality (from 0 to 100, default: 7)
 - **image_rotation** (*Optional*): Set image rotation (0-359, default: 0)
 - **horizontal_flip** (*Optional*): Set horizontal flip (0 to disable, 1 to enable, default: 0)
 - **vertical_flip** (*Optional*): Set vertical flip (0 to disable, 1 to enable, default: 0)
 - **timelapse** (*Optional*): Takes a picture every ms (default: 1000)
 - **file_path** (*Optional*): Save the picture in a custom file path (default: camera components folder)
 
The given **file_path** must be an existing file because the camera platform setup make a writeable check on it.
