Blink instead of a front door peep hole?

So there are two things here:

  1. Live view of the camera - with the Blink approved version you can “view” the live feed (though note the battery life supports about 20,000 seconds of video) through the ST app
  2. Turn on video recording - this can’t be done currently, working with Blink on this for the future pipeline, however as @krlaframboise pointed out you can arm the camera when someone steps on the mat and if there’s movement in front of it then it will automatically record a video (depending upon your configured video recording length) and raise a motion event notification thereafter.

BTW just a little trick, if you’re interested. This isn’t an official blink functionality but more of a quirk I’ve noticed while testing the camera, if you force a the camera to take a picture while it is armed it tends to set off the motion detection and consequently turns on video recording. Most likely a firmware bug and could be fixed by Blink in future. However for now it could be used a proxy trigger to turn on video recording.