Indigo Domotics

I've developed a plugin to interface Blink cameras to Indigo. It currently supports outdoor cameras and sync modules, since that's all the kit I have, and allows arming/disarming of cameras and whole systems. It also retrieves data such as battery levels and camera temperatures.

The plugin is now available in the Plugin Store.

Hey racarter,

This is very exciting.
Looking forward to trying this.

T.I.A.

It’s in the plugin store.

Thank you!

Oh boy I see I need to update Indigo from 7.5 to the newest version, as well as update my OS from 10.9 to 10.12.

Your Blink Camera Plugin is working very good?

Yes, it’s working well

Much appreciated. I will give it a go.

Thanks

Hey racarter,

Finally upgraded from 10.9.5. Took a couple of hours but arrived in one piece.
I have the latest Indigo running along with your plugin. Yet I am not about to see or access any of the camera.

Would you mind sharing a brief description of this setup for those who are a bit slow must of the time?

T.I.A.

If you've entered your Blink user name and password in the plugin config then restarted the plugin it should then create the camera devices in Indigo. Are you getting any error messages in the event log? If so, please PM me with details.

racarter,
Thanks for writing this plugin.

I'm in the same boat as T-Power. Installation seemed to go okay, I entered all credential info for my Blink account, including the key. Restarted the plugin but the camera devices were not created.

Attached is the log info, which indicates the plugin IS seeing the camera data. Any ideas?

TIA,
Jim

Can’t see the log info..?

Sorry, I finally got the camera devices created so I was going to delete the post but you had already replied (thanks!). I had to disable and then reload the plugin a couple of times and then the devices were created. I've been playing around with the config to arm & disarm and it sometimes works, but I don't have any definite info to share yet. I'll keep working on it and repost when I know more.

Jim

Really liking this plug-in!!! I upgraded my Sync module to the newest version, deleted all the camera devices and the plugin automatically recreated them and started working with the new module right away. Very slick!

One question: is there any way to see a simple/truncated motion detection alert in the log, without seeing the full data dump as it does now? It's good info but very verbose, and not really needed all the time. Perhaps another checkbox on the config page for simple logging vs detailed logging?

Thanks,

Jim

You can create a trigger for when movement is detected; would that do what you want? Failing that, you can download the latest release.

Wow, thanks for the timely response AND updated version...Impressive!

Trigger...DUH! Such a simple solution

I installed the latest version and it works but it logs the event three times for some reason. Attached shows the three plugin entries and a trigger entry I created. I did stop and reload the plugin after installing.

Thanks!

Jim

The problem is that the camera's 'movement detected' flag stays active for a while, so it's caught by several polls. I'll have a think about how to cater for that, but in the meantime I suggest you disable the feature and use triggers.

Update: New version in plugin store.