No camera show's up

[dgomes]

from blinkpy import blinkpy

blink = blinkpy.Blink(username='XXXX@gmail.com', password='XXXX')
blink.start()

for name, camera in blink.sync.cameras.items():
    print(name)                   # Name of the camera
    print(camera.attributes)      # Print available attributes of camera

This code doesn't show up any camera.

Cameras do show up in the app

[dgomes]

This is a follow up of home-assistant/core#17316 (comment)

[dgomes]

The cameras are linked, else the app wouldn't work. right ?

[fronzbot]

Yeah, if you see them in the app, you should see them with the API. I cannot reproduce this issue, and I know of a few people who have tested the recent version and have not run into this issue, which is why I'm perplexed.

A few questions:

1. How many sync modules do you have?

2. What is the output of blink.region_id

3. What is the output of blink.sync.online

4. Does blink.events return anything (it should be a big ass dictionary of info)?

EDIT:

Also, does the output of blink._auth_header look like {'Host': 'xxxx.immedia-semi.com', 'TOKEN_AUTH': 'bunchoflettersandnumbers'}?

[dgomes]

1. Only one sync module with 3 cameras

2. prde

3. ERROR
   File "/Users/dgomes/Projects/home-assistant/lib/python3.6/site-packages/blinkpy/sync_module.py", line 79, in online
   return ONLINE[self._status_request()['syncmodule']['status']]
   TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

4. {'event': []}

[fronzbot]

So there's a communication error with the Blink servers then. To see if it's persisting, run blink.refresh(force_cache=True) and then check the output of blink.events again. If it's empty, something weird is happening.

[fronzbot]

Hmm, real quick, try the following:
blink.sync.get_cameras()
and see if they show up.

If they don't... my only guess is Blink has changed how non-US based cameras access their servers. You could try accessing the US servers to see if it works (though it's a bit of a manual process):

import json
headers = {'Host': blinkpy.DEFAULT_URL, 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
data = json.dumps({"email": blink._username, "password": blink._password, "client_specifier": "iPhone 9.2 | 2.2 | 222"})
blink.region_id = 'prod'
blink._host = 'prod' + blinkpy.BLINK_URL
resp = blinkpy.http_req(blink, url=blinkpy.LOGIN_URL, headers=headers, data=data, reqtype='post')
blink._token = resp['authtoken']['authtoken']
blink._auth_header = {'Host': blink._host, 'TOKEN_AUTH': blink._token}
blink.urls = blinkpy.BlinkURLHandler(blink.region_id)
blink.get_ids()
blink.sync = blinkpy.BlinkSyncModule(blink, blink._auth_header)
blink.sync.get_videos()
blink.sync.get_cameras()
blink.sync.set_links()
blink._events = blink.events_request()

[dgomes]

refresh() and get_cameras() had no effect

did get something on resp:

{'authtoken': {'authtoken': 'REDACTED', 'message': 'auth'}, 'networks': {'31911': {'name': 'Entrada', 'onboarded': True}, '46389': {'name': 'Home', 'onboarded': False}}, 'region': {'prde': 'Europe'}}

also possibly relevant:

blink.urls.__dict__
{'base_url': 'https://rest.prod.immedia-semi.com', 'home_url': 'https://rest.prod.immedia-semi.com/homescreen', 'event_url': 'https://rest.prod.immedia-semi.com/events/network', 'network_url': 'https://rest.prod.immedia-semi.com/network', 'networks_url': 'https://rest.prod.immedia-semi.com/networks', 'video_url': 'https://rest.prod.immedia-semi.com/api/v2/videos'}

Also relevant ?

blinkpy.BlinkSyncModule(blink, blink._auth_header).__dict__
{'blink': <blinkpy.blinkpy.Blink object at 0x10c341198>, '_auth_header': {'Host': 'prde.immedia-semi.com', 'TOKEN_AUTH': 'REDACTED'}, 'sync_id': None, 'region': None, 'region_id': None, '_host': None, '_events': [], 'cameras': {}, '_idlookup': {}, '_video_count': 0, '_all_videos': {}, '_summary': None, 'record_dates': {}, 'first_init': True}

[dgomes]

resp = blinkpy.http_req(blink, url="https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/network/31911/syncmodules", headers=headers)

does retrieve my sync_module info

[dgomes]

resp = blinkpy.http_req(blink, url="https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/network/31911/cameras", headers=headers)

does show my camera :)

If you tell me were I need to look into your code I probably can come up with a PR :)

[fronzbot]

Ok, it seems like the urls are actually being set to the US version (prod) rather than Europe (prde). The urls are initialized in the get_auth_token() function within the blinkpy.py module (line 137). I'm not sure if this is where the problem is, but it may be a good starting point.

Those urls should be initialized with the blink.region_id which for you correctly returns prde but are not being set correctly based on the output of blink.urls.__dict__

[dgomes]

the urls look OK:

blink.urls.__dict__
{'base_url': 'https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com', 'home_url': 'https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/homescreen', 'event_url': 'https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/events/network', 'network_url': 'https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/network', 'networks_url': 'https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/networks', 'video_url': 'https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/api/v2/videos'}

[fronzbot]

Hmm. Maybe the way I'm grabbing cameras is in the process of being deprecated. I'm thinking it would be better to use the cameras link you posted and use that to find the cameras and update the camera properties that way (rather than looking at the events list).

[dgomes]

I got that url from https://github.com/MattTW/BlinkMonitorProtocol

[dgomes]

Analysing your code, one problem is you assume 1 network_id.
(I have 2 different networks)

[fronzbot]

Interesting- maybe that's the root cause here, then? If you could come up with a solution to fix that, that would be awesome (since I'm unable to test that locally).

[dgomes]

blinkpy.http_req(blink, url="https://rest.prde.immedia-semi.com/homescreen", headers=headers)
{'account': {'notifications': 1}, 'network': {'name': 'Home', 'wifi_strength': 1, 'status': 'no_sm', 'armed': False, 'notifications': 1, 'warning': 0, 'enable_temp_alerts': False, 'error_msg': ''}, 'devices': []}

This is the culprit

devices shouldn't be []

[fronzbot]

So I opened #97 which I think should work as a cleaner fix. @dgomes let me know if it works. For anyone else that wants to test, I left more detailed instructions here