Attempt to build a web portal for Blink (https://blinkforhome.com) products. Currently, the only way to view and administer Blink products is via a mobile app. This project is an attempt to build an open source web portal that will allow a subset of actions to be performed via a computer browser.
This is the front-end component of the portal. It's a simple app written in Typescript, using React. It uses MaterialUI as design system. Unfortunately Blink does not provide API documentation, as a result everything is a result of reverse-engineering the mobile app API calls (this is the documentation I managed to extract). I tested the app only on european servers using a Blink XT2 camera (the only one I own). The backend can be found here: https://github.com/adrian-dobre/BlinkWebService.
In order to build the app, you need NodeJS installed on your computer. Steps to build:
npm install inside the root directorynpm run buildA new build will be outputted in dist directory.
You can download a pre-built release from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w6ZteA14Bhb52HeKeLxHJfP0sNiNsaM3?usp=sharing
For running the app, please see the README.md file of the backed: https://github.com/adrian-dobre/BlinkWebService.
You can try a build of the app here: http://blink-web.madtek.ro
Logging level was set to INFO level, it won't log request/response information.
NOTE: If there are many people using the demo app at the same time, CloudFront may start blocking requests making the app reply with 401/403 status code. In this case, I suggest you host your own private instance of the app, either locally or on your webserver. You can also try the docker version of the app here built by @mcmoe here: https://github.com/mcmoe/blinkwebapp
Note: I was unable to open a live view to the camera, it seems that it uses a proprietary protocol (immis) I could not figure it out (as stated before, there is no documentation for 3rd party developers).
You can see a short UI Demo here
This work represents a personal effort, developed in my spare time and while I have every intention to further develop this solution, I cannot offer any guarantees. However, anybody can just grab the code and do whatever they want with it (it is released under GPL v3 license)
If you'd like to support my work you could buy me a beer.