Special-purpose SmartApp for blink camera motion handling

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There are some other apps and solutions out there but if someone wants a special-purpose smartapp, here you go: GitHub - greglarious/BlinkMotionHandler: SmartThings app for integrating with blink camera motion alerts

Basic setup is to have IFTTT trigger a Simulated Switch in smartthings
This app uses that switch to trigger a Simulated Motion Sensor and a real switch
After a config num minutes it turns off the real switch and sets the Simulated Motion Sensor to inactive.

End result: when the back door camera detects motion, it turns on the back door light for 5 minutes and also triggers a motion detector which can lead to further automation. After 5 minutes, the Simulated Switch and the real switch are set to off and the Simulated Motion Detector is reset.

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Motion alerts with Blink and IFTTT use to take too long to be useful but I can confirm with a Pro account, motion events now trigger within seconds.

With 3 Sync Modules and 9 Cameras, this would have been super useful! Does this have the ability to arm/disarm the system(s)?

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I think Arm/Disarm is possible. In my mere minutes of IFTTT experimentation I noticed exactly 1 trigger (camera motion) and 2 actions (arm/disarm). I assume that the same Simulated Device concept could serve as a signal from SmartThings into IFTTT to handle the Arm/Disarm but have not experimented there yet. For now, I am just using the scheduled Arm/Disarm in Blink.

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Something like this?

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