Camera Statistic

A HACS Home Assistant integration to get statistic from a camera image. It uses the ImageStat operation from Pillow.

I created this integration as i wanted to Home Assistant to switch my camera from day <-> night mode . I was unable to get my camera to do this itself in a desired way.

This integration should also make it possible to check if your red ferrari is parked on your drive way.

The default update interval is 1 minutes (60 seconds).

Screenshots:

Current issues:

• Initially the sensors will have no value, but they should be populated at the first update
• The entity names have an incorrect name like: "camera_statistic_for_none_camera_statistic_for_none_b_mean". This is caused that the selected camera entity does not have a name defined. You can do this via the Home Assistant gui.
• Conversion from 0-255 still needs to be converted to percentages (0-100)

Tips/notes:

• If your camera provides a substream, use that one. This should reduce the resource utilitzation.
• The fastest update-interval is 5seconds. This to not introduce stability issues.
• Be aware that storing all sensor-values will significantly increase the size of your Home Assistant database. You should disable sensors which you are not interested in.
• You can trigger an update via a service-call:

  service: homeassistant.update_entity
  data: {}
  target:
     entity_id: >-
       sensor.camera_statistic_for_voortuin_substream_camera_statistic_for_voortuin_substream_b_mean