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Automated time lapse videos with Home Assistant

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Ever wanted to set up a time lapse video?  I’m going to show you how to do it with home assistant using a 10 dollar or less camera! In this tutorial we will cover:  Flashing the camera  Setting up the camera in Home Assistant  Setting up the automation  Setting up a script to combine the images into a video  Setting up a service to call the script  Flashing the camera For my project I am using: an AI-Thinker clone that I got from Amazon (3 for $15.88) PlatformIO with VS Code an example from the Arduino board package downloaded from github Home Assistant  (hass) an FTDI adapter for uploading the code There are a number of methods that can be used to pull the camera into Home Assistant. First, you can use the ESPHome integration with a few lines of yaml code, and while this method tightly integrates with hass, I didn't find a way to access the camera outside of the hass environment. Check the docs for this camera at  https://www.esphome.io/components/esp32_camera.html?highlight=camer