blinkpy: Cannot arm/disarm Blink Mini Cameras

Hi @fronzbot et al ,

Seems to work here. In api.py I added:

def minicam_arm(blink, network, camera_id, arm):
    """Send arm/disam to blink servers."""
    url = f"{blink.urls.base_url}/api/v1/accounts/{blink.account_id}/networks/{network}/owls/{camera_id}/config"
    data = dumps({"enabled": arm})
    return blink.auth.query(
        url=url, headers=blink.auth.header, data=data, json_resp=False, reqtype="post",
    )

in camera.py -> BlinkCameraMini -> arm I call: api.minicam_arm(self.sync.blink, self.network_id, self.camera_id, value)

In my main code sample:

camera = blink.cameras[‘Mini Cam’] camera.arm = False

And the camera shows disarmed in my phone app. Set camera.arm to True and it shows back to enabled in my phone app.

Perhaps it just me?

Cheers, DrJES

I can confirm this works as of today! I shall make a PR with these in.

If I can help I will - I have 2 minis and 5 XT2 cameras. I’d love to disable motion detection on the Mini’s inside when we’re at home. I have the arming and disarming working well based on location and the overnight arming too. Would just like to disable the motion detection on the internal cameras. Shout if you need someone to test.

Yep this is on my radar to add in, but haven’t had time. I’m hoping I can mess with it sometime this month

Hi @fronzbot et al ,

Seems to work here. In api.py I added:

def minicam_arm(blink, network, camera_id, arm):
    """Send arm/disam to blink servers."""
    url = f"{blink.urls.base_url}/api/v1/accounts/{blink.account_id}/networks/{network}/owls/{camera_id}/config"
    data = dumps({"enabled": arm})
    return blink.auth.query(
        url=url, headers=blink.auth.header, data=data, json_resp=False, reqtype="post",
    )

in camera.py -> BlinkCameraMini -> arm I call: api.minicam_arm(self.sync.blink, self.network_id, self.camera_id, value)

In my main code sample:

camera = blink.cameras[‘Mini Cam’] camera.arm = False

And the camera shows disarmed in my phone app. Set camera.arm to True and it shows back to enabled in my phone app.

Perhaps it just me?

Cheers, DrJES

The main issue is finding the right api endpoint. If you go to the camera.py module and compare it with the default methods called in api.py you can see the Mini cameras usually have the same url format with the only change being “owls” added to the url. I tried some combinations for the arming url, but it didn’t work. Admittedly I didn’t try very hard so it’s possible some simple combination will do the trick. Just a matter of testing it out.

You could do this on your own in python with the module by following the request formats in api.py. Really, once we find the url it’s ridiculously easy to implement it because I already have everything set up for that.