core: Blink Integration being blocked

The problem

I just received this email from Amazon. Is there a way to update the integration for Blink to use a different authentication mechanism?

Dear Blink Customer, You are receiving this email because your account has used automation scripts that use an outdated login method to connect to your Blink account. With security and customer protection as our top priority, that login method is being deprecated.  This means that any scripts you are using will no longer work as of 5/11. We encourage you to try out IFTTT, our supported 3rdparty integration, for more secure automation functionality. If you have other feature preferences or requests, you can always email product feedback to info@blinkforhome.com for consideration. Thank you, Team Blink

Environment

  • Home Assistant Core release with the issue:
  • Last working Home Assistant Core release (if known):
  • Operating environment (Home Assistant/Supervised/Docker/venv):
  • Integration causing this issue: Blink
  • Link to integration documentation on our website:

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml


Traceback/Error logs


Additional information

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments: 23 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

FYI, I’ve just patched PR 35396 into my local build and everything seems to be working OK still. Now I guess we wait to see what happens on Monday…

@fronzbot thanks so much for doing this.

I just gave this a shot. I was in group 2; after I ran blink.start(), I got the expected text.

I received an email with subject Verify New Device Login. The device name was *|DEVICENAME|*.

It took a few seconds, but when the python prompt came back I was able to see everything as normal running both blink.sync and blink.cameras.

So, everything looked good to me, though I suppose I’m not in the 2FA group either.