Blink Save Video Issue

Configuration
1

I’m trying to configure an automation which saves a video from a Blink cam when motion is detected. I have actually used the example included in the documentation for the Blink integration but it’s not working.

I’ve tried calling the service with a JSON string but when I do the following error is logged in the Home Assistant log file:

2019-08-30 21:45:12 ERROR (SyncWorker_0) [blinkpy.camera] No saved video exist for Bedroom.

However, if I use the Blink App I can see there are numerous videos for this camera.

Can anyone help me out in figuring out what is wrong please?

Thanks

Pete

2

The way the library is written requires the video to have been recorded after home-assistant was started. Can you check the attributes for the camera in “Developer Tools --> States”? There will be a bunch of entries, the one you’re interested in is “video”. It should have a url to a video. Just double check to make sure that there is, in fact, a url listed there.

Could you also provide the exact JSON string you’re using to call the service?

3

Hi @fronzbot

I checked the camera entity and the video attribute has a long URL that starts with https://rest-prde.immedia-semi.com. The end of the URL is a multi digit number with an .mp4 extension.

This is the JSON i’m using to call the save service:

{
"name":"Bedroom",
"filename":"/tmp/video.mp4"
}

The directory where i’m saving content is white listed using this fragment in my configuration.yaml file.

  whitelist_external_dirs:
    - '/tmp/'
4

Hmm, not really sure what’s going on. I just tested on my end and it worked fine. Could you try calling the blink.blink_update service before calling blink.save_video to see if that fixes the issue?

5

Unfortuantely it makes no difference.

I have also tested in a fresh installation of Hass.io. My old version was running on a Pi 3 and wasn’t very responsive. I’ve now got an old Intel i7-based laptop which i’ve installed Proxmon on and i’ve got Hass.io running as a VM in there.

It’s much more responsive now. But alas the camera issue still persists.

6

Can you try enabling motion detection, waiting a moment, and then manually trigger motion detection (all while home assistant is up and running normally)? After you trigger the motion detection, run the blink.update service. And then do these things:

  1. Check if the binary_sensor.motion_detected state switches to “on”
  2. Check if the “video” property of your camera’s state has changed
  3. Attempt to call the save_video service and see if it works or if you get the same error
7

Sorry for the delay Kevin. I’ll check this tonight and let you know the outcome.

Thanks for your help so far.

8

Same problem here. I always get: “No saved video exist for Camera garage.
12:25 /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/blinkpy/camera.py (ERROR)”

Did you solve someway? Thanks

9

@fronzbot

I was trying to save the video. But in the developer told the video attribute is blank. Even when it is saving on the blink module.

Any pointers?

Thanks I’m advance