Blink Camera Outdoor not showing live stream

loganmancuso · October 24, 2023, 4:17pm

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.

Ady1892 · January 24, 2024, 7:55pm

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?

raspberrypi353 · January 27, 2024, 2:34am

same here!!

davecowell · January 30, 2024, 5:38pm

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

Vinz59290 · February 19, 2024, 9:48pm

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

lu4p · August 8, 2024, 7:03pm

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.

github.com

fronzbot/blinkpy/blob/e2c747b5ad295424b08ff4fb03204129155666fc/blinkpy/api.py#L318


      
          async def request_camera_usage(blink):
              """
              Request camera status.
          
              :param blink: Blink instance.
              """
              url = f"{blink.urls.base_url}/api/v1/camera/usage"
              return await http_get(blink, url)
          
          
          async def request_camera_liveview(blink, network, camera_id):
              """
              Request camera liveview.
          
              :param blink: Blink instance.
              :param network: Sync module network id.
              :param camera_id: Camera ID of camera to request liveview from.
              """
              url = (
                  f"{blink.urls.base_url}/api/v5/accounts/{blink.account_id}"
                  f"/networks/{network}/cameras/{camera_id}/liveview"

Docs here:

github.com

MattTW/BlinkMonitorProtocol/blob/379764d62137958d5cc1a0d1287470a6ffbe05d4/camera/liveview.md

## Liveview

Ask for a live video stream of the given camera

`POST /api/v5/accounts/{AccountID}/networks/{NetworkID}/cameras/{CameraID}/liveview`

### Headers
- **TOKEN-AUTH** -  session auth token
- **content-type** - `application/json`

### Body
- **intent** - `liveview`
- **motion_event_start_time** - empty string = immediate?

### Response
A command object containing a Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) URL 

### Example Request
```sh
curl --request POST \

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

Sk8erryan9107 · September 26, 2024, 12:50am

Any updates for this?

roger2 · December 18, 2024, 11:41am

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