Image
The Image integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows other integrations to display a static image.
Building block integration
This image is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.
A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this image building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.
If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the image building block offers.
Image states
The stateThe state holds the information of interest of an entity, for example, if a light is on or off. Each entity has exactly one state and the state only holds one value at a time. However, entities can store attributes related to that state such as brightness, color, or a unit of measurement. [Learn more] of an image entity is a timestamp showing the date and time when the image was last changed, for example, 2026-01-01T12:00:00.123456+00:00. The Home Assistant interface shows it in your local date and time format.
In addition, the entity can have the following states. Each item shows the interface label, followed by the stored state:
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Unavailable (
unavailable): The entity is currently unavailable. -
Unknown (
unknown): The state is not yet known.
List of actions
The Image integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] provides the following actions. Each link below opens a dedicated page with examples, parameters, and a step-by-step UI walkthrough.
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Take image snapshot (
image.snapshot) Saves the current image from an image entity to a file.
For an overview of every action across all integrations, see the actions reference.