Blink Integration stopped working and can't login

Third party integrations
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Great to be working again, but also lovely to see the Mini cameras are now supported.

Just one thing I’ve noticed, I don’t seem to be able to arm/disarm the mini camera …

Thanks

91

Yeah right now if your Blink Mini camera is linked to a sync module, you can’t arm/disarm. Different endpoint than all the other cameras for some reason, and I haven’t figured it out yet. However, if you link the mini camera up as an individual device on your blink account, you’ll be able to arm/disarm as if it was its own sync module.

Also, thanks for the reminder about that. I currently don’t have an open issue regarding this so I’ll create one to remind myself to keep looking

92

Definitely great work with this - any idea when 0.114 will be available on the Docker Hub?

93

Anyone else noticing that the Blink “Verify Device Login” emails now come after every HA restart? I never actually need to enter the new PIN into the UI, but I keep getting them nevertheless. Just curious if that’s going to cause any issues with Blink or the integration itself down the road…

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94

I removed from main group and re-added to a new group, deleted and re-added the integration but still not getting arm/disarm. Any suggestion on how to add the camera to avoid using sync module? Thanks.

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@elyobelyob - if you re-add your camera as a standalone group in the Blink app, you will get a new alarm control panel in Home-Assistant to arm/disarm. If you’re not seeing that behavior, let me know.

@shim895 - yes, I noticed that as well. Normally you should only see them every 24hrs (known issue here) and not at restart. Shouldn’t cause any problems. Although it’s not what I intended, so I’ll look into it.

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96

Found the Docker Hub Beta version -seems to work well :smile:

97

I’m seeing the same behavior on restart. Just updated my docker container to beta 2 and on startup I received the 2FA email. HA doesn’t show any notifications and the integration appears to be fully working.

98

@fronzbot I may be using node-red a bit more than front-end Home-Assistant …

99

Thanks for this. Back up and running on beta.

100

It’s working with the last update but I am getting a blink email with a code on every reboot of HA.
I am ignoring it since the integration is working anyway.
Any idea how to avoid this email everytime ?

101

I updated to 0.114.0 and blink is working again, though I had to enter the pin code they emailed me. Now 24 hours later, I got another email with a new pin code. I didn’t restart HA, so I’m confused why I got it. The email says if I don’t enter the pin code within 40 minutes, it will deny the login attempt. Not sure if it will stop working after the 40 minutes or not.

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102

I am seeing the same thing with my setup as well. I am getting the Blink team e-mail even without a reboot.

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RE: the repeated Blink emails. It’s a known issue - see the post above (#95: Blink Integration stopped working and can't login). I am seeing the same behavior, but I have not had to enter in the pin again after the initial time. I have received this email about 50 times now upon HA restart and my Blink integration is still working fine :wink:

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I am quite stuck here: after enabling the Blink integration in the Configuration UI, signing in, and entering my 2FA pin I received by email, I get a “success” confirmation, but none of the Blink devices/entities are ever found. I couldn’t find anything useful in the logs. I tried deleting and reconfiguring the integration and power cycling the Blink sync module, to no avail. I also tried setting the pin via blink.send_pin. I can see Blink on my Integrations page - it just doesn’t have any devices shown.

Edit: I should add that it was working for me yesterday, but then all Blink devices went unavailable, so I deleted and reenabled the integration, and now all devices are missing. I’ve been getting tons of emails with different UFA pins.

HassOS
HA Version: 0.114.4

105

I have a number of cameras, but think that I can only enable/disable one at a time? The sync module can only work with one camera at a time? If this is the case, is there a trigger I can use to confirm the update is physically completed and the next camera can be updated?
I’ve put in a 5 second delay, currently and cannot see any response from the node. (This is happening in Node-Red).

Thanks

106

I have two Blink XT2 cameras connected to a single sync module and to Home Assistant. One account, one configuration/entry in Home Assistant, and one Blink Sync Module to rule them all.

107

I’m just getting into automation and am trying to create one to switch my cameras on or off … whatever I do, it just doesn’t seem to trigger.

I seem to be getting this error in the log …
2020-10-13 13:20:31 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.cameras_on_duplicate] Cameras On Test: Error executing script. Unexpected error for call_service at pos 1: unhashable type: ‘list’

Here’s an example which I am testing …

  • id: ‘1602577516768’
    alias: Cameras On Test
    description: ‘’
    trigger:
    condition:
    action:
    • service: camera.enable_motion_detection
      data: {}
      entity_id: camera.blink_rear
      mode: single

I have also tried with entity_id: camera.blink_rear placed in the data, but again … it doesn’t seem to work. I can enable disable using Developer Tools > Services … this is normally triggered within 20 seconds …

Any ideas appreciated … thanks …

108

Try this:

- id: ‘1602577516768’
  alias: Cameras On Test
  description: ‘’
  mode: single
  trigger: []
  condition: []
  action:
    - service: camera.enable_motion_detection
      entity_id: camera.blink_rear

You might want to put some kind of trigger in there. This will trigger the automation every 5 minutes:

  trigger:
    platform: time_pattern
    minutes: "/5"
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Unfortunately not, still getting the same error.

Am running on Home Assistant Core HA v. 0.116.2