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.

# 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.