Home Assistant

Microsoft Face Identify

The microsoft_face_identify image processing platform lets you use Microsoft Face identify API through Home Assistant. This platform allow you do identify persons 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_identify
   group: family
   source:
    - entity_id: camera.door

Configuration variables:

  • group (Required): Micrsoft face group to detect person from it.
  • 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.