Support for Local Camera Hardware

Feature Requests
1

Support for Local camera hardware (Raspberry Pi/USB cameras/etc.)

In my case I am running on a Raspberry pi and would love to integrate the PiCam with HASS.

2

rPi Camera is already available. A usb camera is a bit tricky right now but I have submitted a pull request fro a local file camera. Basicly it just reads any image file on your system as a camera.
It could be combined with a usb camera and 3rd party software that takes a snapshot every x seconds to use a usb camera.

3

I was looking into adding an USB connected camera in the past but didn’t get to far because pygame is a bit wired and SimpleCV is no longer actively developed.

4

How can I add the rPi Camera to the configs? I searched the documentation but all I saw were entries for IP cameras.

5

rPi Camera information is on the component page

6

EDIT: Wrong thread

7

You probably should have a look on how HA is setup.

8

OOps, responded to the wrong thread :slight_smile:

This can be closed. Got it working after following the instructions and adding HASS to the video group. This should probably be done in the AIO rPi installer.