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Pi Control Hub: Integrating Camera's in Home Assistant

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Here is a quick post on integrating camera's with Home Assistant, this includes

 

Basically, as part of Home Assistant dashboard we are going to add two sections  showing the preview of Pi Cameras as shown in the pictures below

{gallery} Integrating Camera's in Home Assistant

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Home Assistant dashboard with Pi Cameras preview.

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Security Camera setup with Pi Zero + NOIR camera, in a 3D printed case.

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Pi camera connected  to the Raspberry Pi 3

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Security camera feed in a  separate tab

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Picture gallery of the intruders detected image , using Single File PHP Gallery

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Having a close look into the picture from the Picture gallery

 

 

Here are the steps to follow to integrate the Pi cameras with Home-Assistant

#1  Connect the Pi camera to Raspberry Pi 3 and run the following commands to create a directory called picamera

         pi@hub:~ $ cd /home/hass

         pi@hub:~ $sudo mkdir picamera

         pi@hub:/home/hass $ ls

         picamera

         pi@hub:/home/hass $ sudo chown hass picamera

      and then create a image file

        pi@hub:/home/hass/picamera $   touch image.jpg

 

#2 Update the configuration.yaml file

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: /home/hass/picamera/image.jpg

   and then stop and start Home-Assistant and test

      sudo systemctl stop home-assistant@hass

      sudo systemctl start home-assistant@hass

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#3 Adding the Security camera  to the dashboard

    modify the configuration.yaml to include the following under the camera section

- platform: mjpeg
  mjpeg_url: http://192.168.0.21:8081
  name: Security Camera

    change the ip address above with the security camera Pi's ip address

 

#4 To add Security camera Preview tab and the Intruder detection tab which show the picture gallery

       Add the following under the panel_iframe section of the configuration.yaml file

  intruder:
    title: 'Intruder detection'
    icon: 'mdi:nature-people'
    url: 'http://192.168.0.21/'
  securitycam:
    title: 'Security Cam'
    icon: 'mdi:camera'
    url: 'http://192.168.0.21:8081/'

      change the ip address above with the security camera Pi's ip address