Home Assistant

QR Code

The qrcode image processing platform enables QR code recognition from cameras.

To get this running, please install zbar-tools (Ubuntu 18.04)

Configuration

To enable this, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
image_processing:
  - platform: qrcode
    source:
      - entity_id: camera.door

Configuration Variables

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source list Required

List of image sources.

entity_id string Required

A camera entity id to get picture from.

name string (Optional)

This parameter allows you to override the name of your image_processing entity.

Basic example

An automation using this integration could look like this:

automation:
  - alias: "Catch QR code and arm the alarm system"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: image_processing.qr_front_door
        to: ARM_QR_CODE_VALUE
    action:
      - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
        target:
          entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
        data:
          code: MY_ALARM_CODE