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Blink camera clips kept locally via a Pi Zero posing as a USB drive
With help from Claude, a Pi Zero 2 W in gadget mode acts as the Blink Sync Module's USB drive and syncs clips to a local share and Google Drive.
Credits
- Reddit poster Time-Hovercraft-3075 Source ↗
- Repository account OVR92 Source ↗
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The full story
Blink's Sync Module 2 can save clips to a USB drive, but getting at them meant moving the drive or going through Blink's slow cloud app. With some help from Claude, the poster put a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in "gadget mode" so it pretends to be a USB drive.
The Sync Module writes clips straight to the Pi, which syncs them to a local SMB share for Home Assistant and to Google Drive, with no Blink subscription needed.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Local Blink CameraReddit poster: Time-Hovercraft-3075Posted
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Local Blink Camera (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: OVR92
The project on GitHub.