Blink Home Security Camera is a great product but currenty lacks of an official web viewer. This project is an attempt to create a web viewer that complements the current Mobile application. In conjuntion with Bling Desktop project, it works as a Desktop solution for Blink Systems.
Check current thumbnail, battery status and temperature for all cameras of each network
View and download all videos
This viewer is just a frontend application. This means user credentials are never stored, being directly forwarded to Immedia servers. Once login succeeds, server returns a token that will be provided in future REST API calls.
As Immedia server is not being proxied by any other server, trying to run the application in a Chrome browser will incur in CORS problems. Using CORS plugin will not solve the problem as some Immedia endpoints do not implement OPTIONS method for some calls. Chrome's preflight request will fail for this reason.
To avoid this problem you can do one of these things:
- Close all instances of Chrome browser (open taskmanager and kill any resilient Chrome process). Execute
Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disable-web-security --user-data-dir=<path to viewer>.
MacOS
open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --args --disable-web-security --user-data-dir=<path to viewer>
- Or, use Bling Desktop, another project WIP. This browser is a modified CEF that will automatically add Immedia servers to CORS headers. Additionally, this browser provides advanced functionality like automatic videos backup.