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@colinbendell fair point. I have removed the logic from the `blink-api` file and put it in a ternary inside the blink file. I also created a function to check for blink mini cameras as its around the place as a string check. It also allows for more code names if they come out with further wired cameras to work the same.

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Hi Colin. The temps are -9 F this morning and here we go with the alerts. I've restarted the bridge that Blink is sitting on so you can see the startup process and see the alerts: [1/31/2022, 6:26:23 AM] [Blink Cameras] Restarting Process... [1/31/2022, 6:26:24 AM] [Blink Cameras] Launched child bridge with PID 10620 [1/31/2022, 6:26:25 AM] Registering platform 'homebridge-blink-for-home.Blink' [1/31/2022, 6:26:25 AM] [Blink Cameras] Loaded homebridge-blink-for-home v3.7.6 child bridge successfully [1/31/2022, 6:26:25 AM] Loaded 11 cached accessories from cachedAccessories.0E327261ACDC. …

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I’m using the latest Blink homebridge plugin. With my Blink gen 3 the thumbnails didn’t work very reliably. This weekend I upgraded all of them to the newest gen 4 and it works really well. I get a new thumbnail every 10 seconds which gives me an idea of what’s going on at a glance. That combined with the Blink app itself recording motion is good enough for me as I don’t wanna go through the crazy hassle of running real surveillance camera wiring around my house since I don’t have good attic access.

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Live view doesnt seem to be working for me with the XT2 cameras. I get this when trying to bring up live view (logs) /2020, 9:54:10 PM] [Blink] [Video] Failed to start video stream: spawn ffmpeg ENOENT listening on 0.0.0.0:34275 [11/4/2020, 9:54:15 PM] [Blink] [Video] Failed to start video stream: spawn ffmpeg ENOENT listening on 0.0.0.0:36433 [11/4/2020, 9:54:22 PM] [Blink] [Video] Failed to start video stream: spawn ffmpeg ENOENT [11/4/2020, 9:54:50 PM] [Blink] Blink Dewberry Lane Armed (Target) for Blink Dewberry Lane is: 2 [11/4/2020, 9:54:52 PM] [Blink] Blink Dewberry Lane Armed (Target) …

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Refs #11 I'm trying to connect a Blink Mini firmware 9.9 With homebridge docker image running on Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04.3 LTS) Node.js Version: v18.19.0 homebridge-blink-for-home 3.8.2 [code] I think there is something wrong with ffmpeg, but I'm not entirelly sure what can it be. After installation there were some errors while trying to run ffmpeg; [code] I did: a) check if the included ffmpeg works, manually, via terminal access and it says `bash: ./ffmpeg: No such file or directory` which is strange since the file is there and it has X permission on all security levels …

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