Blink camera -> RTSP bridge (for Frigate, etc.)

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Have a working PoC of this so I thought I’d share: GitHub - roger-/blinkbridge: Blink camera -> RTSP bridge

It’s a Docker-ized app to publish Blink motion clips to RTSP. There’s currently about a ~30s delay and the video will be static until motion is detected, but it’ll let you use Frigate, etc. with your Blink cameras.

Eventually I’ll try to integrate an ONVIF server with motion events so it can be used with Scrypted for HSV support.

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Hi, thanks for sharing your work. I wondered if this only works with Blink cloud subscriptions? I seem to be getting a lot of errors and can only think that it is because i dont have cloud.

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Hi, I’ve only tested it with cloud storage but anything that BlinkPy supports should work.

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BlinkPy does indeed support local storage. I still seem to be seeing issues. I can authenticate easily enough when running blinkbridge; my creds file generates successfully. My cameras seem to then be identified but after that there seems to be an issue with no clips found. After that there is a whole lot of red exceptions. I wondered if the timezone could be an issue in the blink.py script, any ideas? Happy to load my full logs in a github issue if you are open to that.

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There might be an issue related to local storage after all since I hack around some BlinkPy issues. I’d be happy to investigate – please share logs (GitHub would be better).