Raspberry Pi Camera

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

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

# 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.

Ensure that the user who is running Home Assistant is in the video group. Eg. for the user hass:

$ sudo usermod -a -G video hass