Turning a raspberry pi zero into a network cam for home assistant

I have a Pi zero camera edition, and would like to make it a camera for home assistant.

Was thinking about adding a PIR motion sensor to it as well.

Is this possible, and what is the best way to go about this?

It should work, these links can get you started.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/camera.md

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Thanks for the info!

About to flash all my raspberry pis.

Going to look into having multiple home assistant nodes and see how that goes.

Sounds like fun!! Good Luck!

I have this setup now but without motion sensor …I have raspbian on the zero and I use Motioneye application for connecting all my webcams then display them in my HASS server config

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Hi there!

You could use ‘motion’ to add motion detection http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

This might help you access the camera remotely. http://docs.dataplicity.com/docs/stream-live-video-from-your-pi

Best,
Elliot.
(Founder: dataplicity.com)