Blink Camera Outdoor not showing live stream

Third party integrations
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Is video streaming now supported? Picked up some cameras for prime day and would love to have the sreams

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Me too… The Prime Day was NOT good :slight_smile:

11

Any update on this thread?

12

Even playing motion-initiated clips would be better than nothing. Maybe even adequate.

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Since the module and every cameras have a separate IP address on my LAN maybe we could get the live stream directly by finding each camera its unique http port 443 address, user and password ?

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any update?

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2023 is there any update. Or at least update snap shot when motion happens?

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any news?
Nothing from 2019?

Why not update integration?

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Blink doesn’t support real time streaming protocol (RTSP) I recommend checking out Reolink as an alternative. You can define the camera’s stream_source: address in the configuration.yaml

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Hey all, the best solution ive been able to come up with is to force blink to trigger a new snapshot as fast as I can get the api to respond. The best ive been able to do is every 20 seconds it triggers all of my cameras to take a snapshot. Then waits 5 seconds and forces HA to refresh from blink. Its not a great solution but hope this helps someone else!

alias: Update Cameras
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: "*"
    minutes: "*"
    seconds: /20
condition: []
action:
  - service: blink.trigger_camera
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id:
        - XXX camera id
        - XXX camera id
      entity_id:
        - camera.blink_camera_01
        - camera.blink_camera_02
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: blink.blink_update
    data: {}
mode: single

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used these functions from the documentation: Blink - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io) they are both under the services actions not devices, took me a while to find it.

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This works great! Thanks.

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Thank you for this. Seems like a great solution in the interim. Where exactly does the above code get placed?

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hey didnt see this, it is part of the automations and scenes, just create a new scene and either edit it in the yaml as provided above or through the gui if that is your preference.

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Hi, I cannot get this to work. I believe some of the services have recently been deprecated? Does anyone have an updated working example please?

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same here!!

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I am also getting an error saying that the blink.blink_update is deprecated and will be removed. Is there a workaround at all?

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It’s work if you use homeassistant.update_entity to replace blink update

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Is there something I’m missing? I think asking for a live video stream is already implemented in blinkpy, which returns a standard rtsps stream.

Docs here:

So it should be very straightforward to implement this in home assistant.

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Any updates for this?

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If a motion only stream with some latency is acceptable, this will get you an RTSP stream: Blink camera -> RTSP bridge (for Frigate, etc.)