At least not quotes that work in JSON. I have an Amazon Alexa Show and Echo Spot in my house so I can see my Blink Cameras quickly with just with a short voice command like “Alexa, show me the Garage”. The features of this skill are available on Echo Dot, Spot, Show, Tap, Fire TV, Stick, Cube and Fire Tablets as shown in the following table.
The skill that has most recently been released is the Blink Smarthome skill for video use. Select Notifications, and then select a feature or skill. You’ll then receive an email with your access code, which you can copy and paste into the appropriate spot in the Body section (as shown above).
or have you actually made it work (it doesn’t for me).
This is tied to your Amazon account and is required for the service to work.1. To turn notifications on or off, use the Alexa app.
Is it going to be supported soon?I have blink xt2 and echo show… Tried ifttt to automate opening echo show with the live view from the camera when it detects motion but this is not available either.currently, there’s no official support for this. Unlike other security camera companies, you can store your video clips in the could for free for up to a year, too.Connecting your Amazon Echo Show to your Blink Camera is great option to quickly pull up your Blink Camera feed without the need for your phone. I have a SmartThings door sensor and when the door is open I get a Notification: “Sliding Door is open, either close it or shut off the Air Conditioning.” I have a few Ecobee Switch+’s (built-in Alexa) and I get get the Green Notification light and I then ask Alexa to Open Notifications. Any Trigger that can be spoken to Alexa can execute another skills Action (as if it was spoken). Alerts & Notifications.
I don’t own an Echo Show, but I’m not aware of being able to receive alerts via any Echo device from Blink. I have an Amazon Alexa Show and Echo Spot in my house so I can see my Blink Cameras quickly with just with a short voice command like “Alexa, show me the Garage”. Below you can see a live view example how you can stream a smart camera feed on the Amazon Echo Spot, but you can also stream video on the larger Echo Show with it’s 10” screen.
I confirmed it does not currently work with a Wyze cam so must just be Amazon devices.Using the webcam motion detection example, here are the steps to make this work. Couldn’t get it to work.I am desperate for a skill that would let me use the Alexa Announcement feature to make her say a specific phrase, when queued by a certain trigger.
Here’s what it should look like in my example, although I didn’t paste a real access code and my fake code is shorter than the real one.And there’s one more thing you should know. Hope that helps. Regardless of what smart home device you use as a trigger event, Amazon limits the Notification API: Trigger events can only create notifications up to five times in a five minute period.
The app connects your home to your phone in HD video so you can see and protect what matters most. It took me a bit to figure all of that out.What is the “access code” for a Blink camera?So anyone out there following these instructions, this is a well-written article but those are the things I did to finally get this to work.Once all of the fields are properly filled in, just tap “Create action” to enable your new Alexa notification.