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colinbendell / homebridge-blink-for-home

Blink For Home Camera Homebridge plugin
MIT License
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Add HKSV Support #88

Open techman55 opened 2 years ago

techman55 commented 2 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/s9eyla/homebridge_now_supports_hksv/

Sungamm commented 2 years ago

Is there a chance to have the blink cam in HOMEBRIDGE/HomeKit?! That will be great!

colinbendell commented 2 years ago

The biggest challenge is that Blink now uses a proprietary RTSP encapsulation. The original blink cameras (the ones I have) used standard RSTP using standard open source libraries. The newer versions appear to add some handshake overhead during setup. I had made some traction last year, but the results were inconsistent.

All attempts I've made to reach out to their dev teams have been met with high resistance. Sadly, I think this product line is not a high investment compared to Ring which has higher margins for Amazon.

That said, happy to accept any support or insights you might have.

Sungamm commented 2 years ago

Puh, unfortenately its sounds logicaly bad what you wrote :-( Do you have an idea how to identify the kind of version from Blink? I buy me both cameras for about 2 years and no idea of the version. If I understood you correctly and if one of the old one they use an stardard RSTP that its possible to grip?

Thank you for your good plug-in and effort you spending in it. I am impressed that people as you working for "nothing" and create really good stuff where other companies earn really big money for shit. But its no blaming it am sorry about myself they I invest my money into to wrong product.

orkenspalter commented 2 years ago

I would also be very interested in it. Especially the support of HKSV would be great. Too bad that the RTSP connection has changed.