Home Assistant

Microsoft Face Detect

The microsoft_face_detect image processing platform allows you to use the Microsoft Face Identify API through Home Assistant. This platform enables you do detect face on camera and fire an event with attributes.

Please refer to the component configuration on how to setup the API key.

For using the result inside an automation rule, take a look at the component page.

Configuration Home Assistant

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

Configuration variables:

  • confidence (Optional): The minimum of confidence in percent to process with Home Assistant. Defaults to 80.
  • source array (Required): List of image sources.
    • entity_id (Required): A camera entity id to get picture from.
    • name (Optional): This parameter allows you to override the name of your image_processing entity.
  • attributes array (Optional): The image search attributes. Supported: age, gender, glasses. Default age, gender.