fronzbot / blinkpy

A Python library for the Blink Camera system
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Camera snapshot timestamps #993

Open oscahie opened 1 month ago

oscahie commented 1 month ago

I'm using the Blink integration in Home Assistant and displaying the last snapshot known for each camera in a dashboard. What I'd like to have however is a timestamp next to each image to know how old they are. Is this doable? The integration itself doesn't seem to expose this information as far as I can tell, neither the image metadata. But I'd expect that the blink endpoint does provide it maybe, as I see a unix timestamp value in the snapshot URL.

Happy to hear ideas about how to approach this, even if it requires changes to the Blink integration, which I could try to implement.

PS: I have the oldest (1st generation?) blink cameras.