Blink and flow

[Olivier_Arthus]

Hello
I have 4 Blink cameras
I have successfully connected my Blink account to Homey (through adding a “blink account” device. I am now trying to create a flow, using the available card.
As a test I want a light to go ON whenever motion alert is sent by Bilnk camera.
Here is my flow

It looks ok. WHen I press the “TEST” button it lights my light ON.
But when I go the the camera, trigger the Blink motion alert (and receive a notification on my phone from Blink), the light is not turned on by the Homey FLow.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

[RonnyW]

You are not using a Blink device (camera) as WHEN card.

[Olivier_Arthus]

sorry is that a question or a statement, or maybe you are saying I should not?

[RonnyW]

It’s a statement.
I don’t know which device you are using the WENN card from. But a Blink camera trigger looks like:

or from account:

Did you also add the camera devices in addition to your account?
The motion trigger from the account will only trigger if you have a camera added.
You can use the cameras WHEN cards to react on one camera. Or you can use the account WHEN card to get an event for any motion.

For more details please check the app thread:

[APP][PRO] Blink for Home

Blink comes with a completely redesigned app! [large] This app support several accounts. For each account you can add your devices like cameras, Mini cameras, Systems and Doorbells. [grafik] How to add? Add your account as new device. Login with your credentials. Confirm your 2FA PIN code. Your account is added as new device. That’s the central place for all communication with the Blink cloud. Add your devices. Select the device type (camera, SyncModule…). Select your accoun…

[Olivier_Arthus]

strange, I have added my camera after the account (I just changed the logo). then I added the when card that I found from the camera device.
Here is what my camera device looks like

and here are the device cards I can use

Now I have re-created the flow and it looks like what you are showing, but I don’t know how to enter the name of the camera (strange that I need to provide the name since I’m creating the flow from the very camera i want to use)

Thanks

[RonnyW]

@Olivier_Arthus

but I don’t know how to enter the name of the camera (strange that I need to provide the name since I’m creating the flow from the very camera i want to use)

Can you explain this sentence?
The flow card returns tokens you can use in your flow. This way you can send push message with the camera name token. This token holds the camera name.

[Olivier_Arthus]

I thought I was supposed to enter manually the camera name in the flow…
I guess I do not need to enter it, it is only for information purpose.
However this flow is not doing anything (I mean not switching on the light)
But I press the “Test” button, en enter manually the camera name, it turns ON the light as expected.

Looks as though Homey does not receive the info the motion alarm has been triggered (but I do on my phone from Blink)

So back to my initial message, sorry

[RonnyW]

You only have to fill tag values in test mode because the flow designer don’t know real values.
If the flow gets triggered, the tags are filled by the app.

But this is common Homey standard and not Blink related.

Please check the linked forum topic. There are a lot of details explained for motion alert.

Short:

• motion alert is based on recorded videos - Blink is just sending mobile push messages to the app.
• Means: a video must be recorded
• cloud storage: fast recognition
• local storage: needs sync module and USB stick, slow reading, issues if camera is writing to USB while Homey is reading

[Olivier_Arthus]

Thanks Ronny

I will take now the time to read through the other main post (sorry for missing it but my initial search in the forum returned mostly posts in German…