An app update is required - failed verification

[yphoenix]

Happened to me overnight. Seems Blink changed the API (again)

**[Blink System] Error authenticating with blink API Error: Authentication problem: An app update is required((

    at Request.request.post [as _callback] (/opt/node/lib/node_modules/homebridge-blinkcameras/node_modules/node-blink-security/lib/blink.js:396:25)
    at Request.self.callback (/opt/node/lib/node_modules/homebridge-blinkcameras/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
    at Request.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at Request.<anonymous> (/opt/node/lib/node_modules/homebridge-blinkcameras/node_modules/request/request.js:1154:10)
    at Request.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/opt/node/lib/node_modules/homebridge-blinkcameras/node_modules/request/request.js:1076:12)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:286:20)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:203:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1145:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js```

[Darren5233]

Same here I’m now getting the same error

[bartdorsey]

MattTW/BlinkMonitorProtocol@99a2710

Looks like MattTW has documented that the URL has changed?

[yphoenix]

Looks like the region information in the response to the authenentication has changed and is now:

{ 
    account: { ... },
    client: { ... },
    authtoken: { ... }
    region: 
    { 
        tier: 'prod', 
        description: 'United States', 
        code: 'us' 
    },
    ...
}

I hacked blink.js (around line 450) to get something that works and we'll see how that goes. So far I can get the list of networks but can't get past that stage as they have probably changed too much other stuff.

[yphoenix]

Even if you can get past authentication...

https://rest-prod.immedia-semi.com/network/nnn/homescreen

Gives you an app upgrade required response.

[brianhackel]

I found some of the api source code here to be useful while hacking last night.
i think maybe the URL for getSummary() needs to drop the "/homescreen" and simply reference this.urls.network_url + networkId. But then the response parser needs to be updated as well.
Once authenticated, i had success receiving system state with
https://rest-prod.immedia-semi.com/api/v3/accounts/{blink.account_id}/homescreen
but again, the parser in getSummary() expects a different format and would need to be changed. i didn't take the time to try and rewrite the parser.

[madshall]

I don't own the system anymore. Will gladly make someone else a maintainer.

[yphoenix]

If I have time I can look to see if I can fix the code. I wish Blink (AKA: Amazon) would stop doing this, or at least just publish the specs because they know they are going to be easily reverse engineered anyway.

[yphoenix]

Well many hours later I have some stuff working, but I can't arm a sync module because they have changed the api endpoints again. I'm giving up for today.

[MattTW]

Gonna take a stab at refreshing the API doc later today. In lieu of that:

arm/disarm: https://rest-prod.immedia-semi.com/api/v1/accounts/{accountID}/networks/{networkID}/state/arm ordisarm

Command status endpoint URL format does not appear changed at this time.

If there are other endpoint URL's I can grab quick for anyone, let me know.

[yphoenix]

Can confirm that that arm / disarm End-point still works.

[yphoenix]

Currently I don’t have the enable / disable of activity triggers on a camera by camera basis working but have everything else. If I can get that to work I’ll clean it up and submit a set of changes for somebody to review.

[Ryanlion79]

you guys are absolute legends, please let us all know once you have this fixed.

[crowston]

@yphoenix If you want to share a patch of your current status, perhaps others can help finalize it?

[rcoletti116]

Is anyone able to confirm if this is still being worked on?

[yphoenix]

I can update what I have, it's a hack and it only half works but it is enough to turn on / off my system from HomeKit / Siri which is what I wanted.