Rpi_camera for home assistant os

Kizovinh · September 22, 2021, 6:12pm

Raspberry Pi Camera - Home Assistant from here it said “This integration is only available on Home Assistant Core installation types. Unfortunately, it cannot be used with Home Assistant OS, Supervised or Container.”
Please make it support Home assistant OS 2021.9.7, thanks

francisp · September 23, 2021, 9:01am

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/enegaard/a57af286205914bd912270c89650fb1b

hassos-rpi-camera-howto.md

# Getting the Raspberry Pi Camera to Work on HASSOS

Enabling the Raspberry Pi camera on HASSOS installations is unfortunately not as simple as connecting the camera and configuring Home Assistant as described at https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/rpi_camera.

For the camera to work at all, an alternate firmware needs to be loaded when the Raspberry Pi boots. On Raspberry Pi OS (and many others), the alternate firmware is included with the OS installation image, and switching to the alternate firmware is accomplished by running raspi-config and selecting "Enable Camera" from the menu. HASSOS does not include either the alternate firmware or the raspi-config program, so all of the steps need to be done manually.

The steps below attempt to describe the steps that need to be performed. They have worked for me on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running HASSOS 4.11 through 4.15. If you have a different setup your mileage may vary (but hopefully you'll get enough hints from the below to get it working).

A Home Assistant operating-system issue has been created to request inclusion of the firmware files in future builds (https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/947). Assuming that issue is accepted and resolved, much of this guide will become obsolete - only the last two sections would ned to be followed.

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Kizovinh · September 23, 2021, 9:24am

It supported until os 5.13, i have followed this instruction and made the pi cam work fine untill the version core 2021.8 released.
Now im stuck at core 2021.7.4 with pi cam working, but i want to update my HA :(((

IsThisRight · January 29, 2024, 5:33am

As described in the original post, Raspberry Pi Camera - Home Assistant states “This integration is only available on Home Assistant Core installation types…

Questions:

Is Raspberry Pi WebCAM MQTT Client with discovery support for HASS integration (see Home Assistant Integration documentation) a better (more recent/robust) option for using a Raspberry Pi Camera in HA that would support my Windows VM (Hypervisor specific configuration) installation? fwiw, I’m planning on using a Module 3 Pi camera on a Pi Zero 2 W.
Is my Windows VM (Hypervisor specific configuration) considered an unsupported Home Assistant OS for this? Seems like it is based on the Glossary for HassOS
If so, can someone verify that the Install Home Assistant Core on Windows (which includes installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)), would count as a Home Assistant Core installation type that will support the Raspberry Pi Camera - Home Assistant?