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Camera in Home Assistant
camera
part of Home Assistant since 0.7
Quality: Internal
Camera is an official Home Assistant integration for Camera and Media source.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Entity type
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 16,025 (2.3 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Camera, Media source
- Provides
- Diagnostics
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
- Python packages
PyTurboJPEG==1.8.3
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Frigate Notifications (0.14.0.3l)
- Automation Send a camera snapshot when motion is detected
- Automation Camera - Send & Save Camera snapshot with custom triggers and with Conditions
- Automation AI Event Summary (v1.6.0)
- Automation Camera Snapshot, AI & Notification on Motion
- Automation Doorbell - Notify Google and send camera snapshot to app
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 6 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Camera in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.6.3.
Open
- open Reported problem #179100
- open Reported problem #161685
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.6.3 Bug fix #173466
- fixed in 2026.6.1 Bug fix #173082
- fixed in 2025.12.0 Bug fix #157829
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration