Cast images from my folders as canera

Feature Requests
1

Many integrations support camera, but not support video stream. Let’s make virtual camera with home pictures and videos, which repeats

2

Can you give an example of how you would use this?

3

You want to bring back a little bit of nostalgia with a digital picture frame from the noughties ? :grimacing:

I’d rather not :slight_smile:

4

That could be done with a triggered template image integration.

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: time_pattern
        minutes: "/3"
    image: "{{ 'local/file_'~range(1,11)|random~'.jpg' }}"

You just have to name your files file_1.jpg, file_2.jpg … file_10.jpg.

5

Yes, digital picture frame

6

See my post above. it picks a random photo every three minutes.

You could change the template to cycle through in sequence if you wish.