'raspistill' was not found

Configuration
1

Hi,

I am trying to use the rasperry camera in my Homeassistant configuration, i use the installation with an virtual environment. My yaml looks like:

  - platform: rpi_camera
    name: RaspberryPiCamera
    image_width: 640
    image_height: 480
    image_quality: 7
    image_rotation: 0
    timelapse: 1000
    horizontal_flip: 0
    vertical_flip: 0
    file_path: /home/homeassistant/picamera/image.jpg

And if I try raspistill -o image.jpg i get a picture both logged in as pi and in the virtual environment.

But Home Assistant says in the log :
homeassistant.components.camera.rpi_camera: ‘raspistill’ was not found

Any ideas where i gone wrong?

Best regards
Anders

2

raspstill isn’t in your default path. How did you install it and what does which raspstill show?

3

I installed as pi user i think. Which doesnt return anything:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ which raspstill
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

/Anders

4

Fixed the path, i think :
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ whereis raspistill
raspistill: /usr/bin/raspistill /opt/vc/bin/raspistill

But the log still says
20:42:51 homeassistant.components.camera.rpi_camera: ‘raspistill’ was not found

Do I need to set path from the virtual environment?

5

How did you install it? Did you use the All In One installer, Python Virtual Environment, Hassbian…?

That should narrow down which user is running HA, and what changes are appropriate.

6

Installed with Python Virtual Environment
A ps gives :
/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/python3 /srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/hass -c /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant

And user Homeass+, guess its Homeassistan truncated

/Anders

7

Got the same error.
Apr 12 02:53:36 ha hass[741]: 17-04-12 02:53:36 ERROR (Thread-5) [homeassistant.components.camera.rpi_camera] ‘raspistill’ was not found
HA 0.42.3
My cam -
camera:

  • platform: rpi_camera
    image_rotation: 0
    image_width: 640
    image_height: 480
    image_quality: 7
    horizontal_flip: 0
    vertical_flip: 0
    timelapse: 5000
    file_path: /tmp/image.jpg

My HA in venv.

pi@ha:~ $ sudo su -s /bin/bash homeassistant
homeassistant@ha:/home/pi$ raspistill -o /tmp/cam.jpg
homeassistant@ha:/home/pi$ ls -l /tmp/cam.jpg
-rw-r–r-- 1 homeassistant nogroup 2158820 Apr 12 03:05 /tmp/cam.jpg
homeassistant@ha:/home/pi$
Test passed.

8

My solution was to make a new installation using Hassbian instead of the virtual environment installataion

/Anders

9

For Hassio 0.83.2, I’m still getting the same error.
I also tried to setup the debug login to install it myself with eh authorized_keys, but that doesn’t seem to work either.