Blink Web UI (front-end)
Project
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.
Description
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.
Build
In order to build the app, you need NodeJS installed on your computer. Steps to build:
- clone this repo
- run
npm installinside the root directory - run
npm run build
A new build will be outputted in dist directory.
Releases
You can download a pre-built release from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w6ZteA14Bhb52HeKeLxHJfP0sNiNsaM3?usp=sharing
Running
For running the app, please see the README.md file of the backed: https://github.com/adrian-dobre/BlinkWebService.
Try it out online
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.
Features
- view the list of recordings
- bulk download recordings
- bulk delete recordings
- play a recording
- view the list of cameras
- enable/disable camera
- view the list of networks
- arm/disarm network
- view the list of blink modules
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).
UI Demo
You can see a short UI Demo here
Roadmap (if there is community interest and time permits)
- (maybe) ability to change settings
- (maybe) UI improvements
- (maybe) cloud (Google Drive) backups of recordings
- others?!
Disclaimer
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.