Most likely but we are not able to help because you don’t provide the bare minimum information (yaml, logs) necessary to get help.
Sure about that? Did you do a deep dive into www.esphome.io yet?
what do you mean by deep dive exactly? I’ve searched for cam/camera… i’m not sure what i’m supposed to be searching for if not for either of those terms and there are only 2 pages dedicated to those, one for setting up the config to consider the pins of the cam and the other being the webserver aspect.
I didn’t post all my yamls as the question wasn’t relating to a config i’m trying and is failing, it is about the fact that I can’t work out how I am supposed to integrate it. But thanks for the passive aggressive reply.
And did you bother to read even the first sentence of this 2 pages?
The
esp32_cameracomponent allows you to use ESP32-based camera boards in ESPHome that directly integrate into Home Assistant through the native API.
The
esp32_camera_web_servercomponent allows you to use expose web server of ESP32-based camera boards in ESPHome that directly can be integrated into external surveillance or PVR software.
right, do you think i understand exactly what that means? I mean i wouldn’t have asked here if it made sense to me, would I??
Yes i read that… it says it “directly integrates” but how?! There doesn’t appear to be any aspect of integration other than i have a device in HA now which says it has a camera which (as I said before) “Idle” but i cannot see any way of actually accessing this camera within HA. If i click on the sensor itself it doesn’t show anything and that is , what i assume, is where I should be able to at least test it.
this unhelpful attitude is exactly why HA has such a reputation of being full of elitest know-it-alls.
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In HA add a picture glances card and add your camera to the camera entity field.
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directly integrate into Home Assistant through the native API.
Some more useful links for your deep dive into the esphome docs 
And some think this is a helpdesk
Actually 9 out of 10 people are totally capable of asking a proper question including yaml and logs which typically will be answered very quickly.
On the other hand some people think asking a question is “art”, don’t RTFM or even bother to read this short thread how to as a good question:
If you still have troublesome experience you might wanna try to post some hard facts (yaml, logs) 
this is a web forum. it is literally designed for asking and answering questions as well as discussing things. don’t be such an obnoxious dick. I already told you that the question I asked didn’t even nessesitate posting logs or yaml files. Not sure why you fail to grasp that point. Maybe you’re just doubling down on that point to be more smug and elitest?
you are absolutely the sort of person on here which gives HA a bad name and puts off people trying to learn the intricacies of all of these systems.
I’m lucky in that I’m very technically minded, but in no way a dev, but I feel sorry for people such as my old father who is trying to stumble his way around getting HA setup with the likes of you giving responses like you do.
merry xmas.
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thankyou, I worked out in the end in as much as it seems having the web server configured seems to stop the HA integration from working and using the glances card works from that point.
Welcome. I had this in mind actually (and about 5 other reasons) but I didn’t want to play ping pong and poke in the dark. If you would have presented your yaml & logs this thing would have probably been solved in minutes (not hours ). Let’s hope you learned some intrinsics how to ask better questions for the future 
By any chance you father is born '53 and you are son of @ilioSS53 ? If so please teach your father how to use code tags 
The camera was working from the time I setup it up (close to haf a year ago). Now, if I unplug the power, it fail to setup. If I am lucky, it will work if I reinstall, but I am not having such luck.
I have tried numerous fixes ranging from deleting from HA, changing GPIO pins, several reinstalls, and changing the hostname with no such luck. The camera part isn’t working but the pir sensor does. I have another new esp32 cam I have tried to setup and that is also failing to setup. Can someone suggest what else I can try or look at my config and see if there’s something missing or not right? I am out of ideas of what to do from here.
HA: 2021.12.8
Supervisor: 2021.12.2
HOST: 7.1
Error:
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/security-genkan.yaml...
INFO Starting log output from 192.168.1.94 using esphome API
INFO Successfully connected to 192.168.1.94
[11:35:33][I][app:102]: ESPHome version 2021.12.3 compiled on Jan 9 2022, 11:30:53
[11:35:34][C][wifi:488]: WiFi:
[11:35:34][C][wifi:350]: Local MAC: 10:87:1C:62:WJ:45
[11:35:34][C][wifi:351]: SSID: [redacted]
[11:35:34][C][wifi:352]: IP Address: 192.168.1.94
[11:35:34][C][wifi:354]: BSSID: [redacted]
[11:35:34][C][wifi:355]: Hostname: 'security-genkan'
[11:35:34][C][wifi:357]: Signal strength: -69 dB ▂▄▆█
[11:35:34][C][wifi:361]: Channel: 6
[11:35:34][C][wifi:363]: Gateway: 192.168.1.1
[11:35:34][C][logger:233]: Logger:
[11:35:34][C][logger:234]: Level: DEBUG
[11:35:34][C][gpio.output:010]: GPIO Binary Output:
[11:35:34][C][gpio.output:011]: Pin: GPIO12
[11:35:34][C][gpio.binary_sensor:015]: GPIO Binary Sensor 'motion security-genkan occupancy'
[11:35:34][C][gpio.binary_sensor:015]: Device Class: 'motion'
[11:35:34][C][gpio.binary_sensor:016]: Pin: GPIO14
[11:35:34][C][light:098]: Light 'security-genkan light'
[11:35:34][C][esp32_camera:046]: ESP32 Camera:
[11:35:34][C][esp32_camera:047]: Name: security-genkan
[11:35:34][C][esp32_camera:050]: Board Has PSRAM: YES
[11:35:34][C][esp32_camera:057]: External Clock: Pin:13 Frequency:20000000
[11:35:34][C][esp32_camera:077]: Resolution: 640x480 (VGA)
[11:35:34][E][esp32_camera:096]: Setup Failed: ERROR
[11:35:34][C][captive_portal:144]: Captive Portal:
[11:35:34][C][ota:082]: Over-The-Air Updates:
[11:35:34][C][ota:083]: Address: 192.168.1.94:3232
[11:35:34][C][api:134]: API Server:
[11:35:34][C][wifi_signal.sensor:009]: WiFi Signal 'security-genkan WiFi Signal'
[11:35:34][C][wifi_signal.sensor:009]: Accuracy Decimals: 0
[11:35:34][C][mdns:084]: mDNS:
[11:35:34][C][mdns:085]: Hostname: security-genkan
security-genkan.yaml
substitutions:
name: security-genkan
platform: ESP32
board: esp-wrover-kit # esp32dev
esphome:
name: $name
platform: $platform
board: $board
wifi:
ssid: !secret ssid_1
password: !secret ssid_pass
fast_connect : true
power_save_mode: none
manual_ip:
static_ip: 192.168.1.94
subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.1.1
# Fallback portal
captive_portal:
# Logging
logger:
# Uncomment this if you use Home Assistant
api:
password: !secret ota_pass
ota:
password: !secret ota_pass
esp32_camera:
name: $name
external_clock:
pin: GPIO13 # or GPIO3 GPIO13
frequency: 20MHz
i2c_pins:
sda: GPIO26
scl: GPIO27
data_pins: [GPIO5, GPIO18, GPIO19, GPIO21, GPIO36, GPIO39, GPIO34, GPIO35]
vsync_pin: GPIO25
href_pin: GPIO23
pixel_clock_pin: GPIO22
power_down_pin: GPIO32
# Image settings
max_framerate: 1 fps
resolution: 640x480
jpeg_quality: 20
contrast: 2
saturation: 2
output:
- platform: gpio
pin: GPIO12
id: gpio_12
light:
- platform: binary
output: gpio_12
name: $name light
# Sensors
sensor:
- platform: wifi_signal
name: '$name WiFi Signal'
binary_sensor:
- platform: gpio
pin: GPIO14
name: motion $name occupancy
device_class: motion
Did you already unplug and reattach the lens? In the past that worked for me when the camera setup always failed.
I have not tried it with the first one, but the second which is new in the package I had to insert the lens to the board for the initial setup didn’t work. Which leads me to believe it could be version issue either with HA or esphome??
Hi. Do you have to take off this MB from ESP32-CAM in order to use with HA? Or it can be used as it is. I mean: can you use through MB to power of ESP-CAM?
Hi,
Just to add to this thread, I got a M5Stack Timer Cam F working with the help of the yml file snippets posted by @daveyrb and @frank451, however needed to replace data pin GPIO17 with GPIO32 following the pinmap in [1]. Otherwise I ran into got invalid frame from camera! and last boot was an unhandled reset errors which were a bit cryptic for me.
Cheers,
Dinyar
[1] m5-docs
How about adding that to the esphome docs?
There are some new features in esp32cam in esphome 2022.2
Been looking trough all the post but did not find any recommendations…
Witch cam are recommended with highest resolution and decent frames?
Hello all,
trying to use this camera in an battery application to get every serveal hours an picture. Found a solution here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Esphome/comments/q14986/esp32cam_deep_sleep_occasional_wake_take_a_pic/
But I cannot compile:
Could not find file '/config/esphome/driver/rtc_io.h'. Please make sure it exists (full path: /config/esphome/driver/rtc_io.h).
It seems to be, this rtc_io is an lib whih is not available in ESPhome standard installation. Any idea from where to get and how to integrate?
Regards
Micha
Essentially every esp32 camera I have seen is based on the same chipset. Not to say that there are not manufacturing differences and the usual quality problems with cheaply put together devices with crappy capacitors, voltage regulators and the like, but the camera hardware is usually the same on all of them.