Blink mini work only work for thumbnail

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Hi, I just bought a blink mini and I’m unable to see a live feed.

I tried :

          - type: picture-glance
            entities: []
            camera_image: camera.blink_exterieur
            #camera_view: live

and it only works if I comment the camera view line but it only show me a picture

in my home assistant I can see link to it :

thumbnail: https://rest-u029.immedia-semi.com/media/u029/account/90/network/9684/o/126/thumbnail/fw_9.63___d020_10_19__17_35PM.jpg
video: https://rest-u029.immedia-semi.com/api/v2/accounts/9010/media/clip/5**.mp4

Both link gave me {“message”:“Unauthorized Access”,“code”:101}…

Thanks

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There is no liveview available for blink.

EDIT- I hope to add that in the future, but it is not implemented yet

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hello,
is there any ticket / work in progress on this? or not really

At least control cameras ie arm/disarm via homeassistant?

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I’m using the blink integration, and although there’s no live view, I can arm and disarm the blink mini cameras. I put the two blink Minis together as a different location under the same parent blink account, and the integration created an alarm control panel to arm/disarm. The status of the panel always shows “armed”, but doing a call service to arm or disarm will change its status to armed or disarmed in the blink app

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@mwav3 yeah seems stream / live view is not supported.

i am fine at least with arm/disarm. so okay i will try the plugin Blink - Home Assistant
hopefully it will work at least for such a limited purpose.

thanks

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not sure ; what control panel? I added control panel but clicking on disarm does nothing.

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from documentation >
An alarm_control_panel to arm/disarm the whole blink system (note, alarm_arm_home is not implemented and will not actually do anything, despite it being an option in the GUI).

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Yes I found there is a bug with the control panel. Try doing a call service directly through the developer tools.

action:
  - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm_away
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.blink_cameraname

Or through an automation

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its not possible hm no idea why.

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It sometimes needs initial auth. Check your email on the email that is registered to blink, and if you have an email with a pin, use the blink.send_pin service to authenticate your homeassistant instance to access the account.

Are the cameras together on the same “location” as other blink cameras? I had to seperate the blink Minis to a new/seperate location on my blink account.

Other than that, it’s possible you have a newer version that doesn’t work (mine are older)

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not sure about pin … i was requested to provide sms/email pin when i was setting up plugin.
how can i call that send_pin service? sorry i am totally confused.

i have only 2 blink mini cameras ; so should be ok?
i ordered cams 1 week ago - its about firmware ; so i assume yours were also upgraded.

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Go to developer tools, enter blink.send_pin and enter the pin in the box that appears

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I also have wireless outdoor blink cameras. Not sure if that matters, but that difference might impact things.

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Failed to call service blink.send_pin. Unknown error

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Any log errors? Have you restarted since installing blink? You might need to delete the integration then readd it.

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why delete?

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yes i installed integration and restared.
that service call doesnt make a sense.

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Sometimes deleting and reinstalling clears up an issue if it failed to setup correctly .

The logs make it seem like the integration didn’t install all the way

The service call to send the pin authenticates your home assistant instance to blink by sending blink the pin from your home assistant machine

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i have no clue ; i also removed and added it again …same …

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sorry but you are instructing me in really wrong way
that service can be call … but thing is that PIN has to be filled… i have no clue with what value as i have 2fa via authy not email et.c

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should be like that:

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and to disarm

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so apparently arm/disarm works.

thanks ; thanks @mwav3