Blink Camera Wifi RSSI sensor not showing

[kwkid]

The problem

The wifi rssi sensor of the cameras does not report a value since 2023.12.4. Instead of showing the signal strength in dBm it states unknown for all cameras.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2023.12.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2023.12.3

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Blink

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/blink

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

Maybe related to this upgrade as part of 2023.12.4 -> Bump blinkpy 0.22.4 #105993

[home-assistant]

Hey there @fronzbot, @mkmer, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (blink) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

Code owner commands

Code owners of blink can trigger bot actions by commenting:

• @home-assistant close Closes the issue.
• @home-assistant rename Awesome new title Renames the issue.
• @home-assistant reopen Reopen the issue.
• @home-assistant unassign blink Removes the current integration label and assignees on the issue, add the integration domain after the command.
• @home-assistant add-label needs-more-information Add a label (needs-more-information, problem in dependency, problem in custom component) to the issue.
• @home-assistant remove-label needs-more-information Remove a label (needs-more-information, problem in dependency, problem in custom component) on the issue.

_{^{(message by CodeOwnersMention)}}

---

blink documentation
blink source
_{^{(message by IssueLinks)}}

[mkmer]

Please attach diagnostic: integration -> 3 dots -> download diagnostics

[kwkid]

ran the diagnostic....there's really nothing that is showing up... a snippet...

{
"home_assistant": {
"installation_type": "Home Assistant OS",
"version": "2023.12.4",
"dev": false,
"hassio": true,
"virtualenv": false,
"python_version": "3.11.6",
"docker": true,
"arch": "x86_64",
"timezone": "XXXXXXXXXX",
"os_name": "Linux",
"os_version": "6.1.63-haos",
"supervisor": "2023.12.0",
"host_os": "Home Assistant OS 11.2",
"docker_version": "24.0.7",
"chassis": "embedded",
"run_as_root": true
},

"cameras": {
  "Side": {
    "name": "Side",
    "camera_id": "137812",
    "serial": "**REDACTED**",
    "temperature": null,
    "temperature_c": null,
    "temperature_calibrated": 46,
    "battery": "ok",
    "battery_voltage": null,
    "thumbnail": "https://rest-u004.immedia-semi.com/api/v3/media/accounts/xxxxx/thumbnail.jpg?ts=1703712605&ext=",
    "video": null,
    "recent_clips": [],
    "motion_enabled": true,
    "motion_detected": false,
    "wifi_strength": null,
    "network_id": 52188,
    "sync_module": "Home",
    "last_record": null,
    "type": "xt"
  },

[mkmer]

It shows that the wifi_strength is null. Need to look at API for a possible bug, but if I remember correctly, these values are the JSON response from the web site. AKA, blink isn't giving the value. Would be good to see the whole file JIC something in the sync module points to anything "bad"

…

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 3:38 PM kwkid ***@***.***> wrote: ran the diagnostic....there's really nothing that is showing up... a snippet... { "home_assistant": { "installation_type": "Home Assistant OS", "version": "2023.12.4", "dev": false, "hassio": true, "virtualenv": false, "python_version": "3.11.6", "docker": true, "arch": "x86_64", "timezone": "XXXXXXXXXX", "os_name": "Linux", "os_version": "6.1.63-haos", "supervisor": "2023.12.0", "host_os": "Home Assistant OS 11.2", "docker_version": "24.0.7", "chassis": "embedded", "run_as_root": true }, "cameras": { "Side": { "name": "Side", "camera_id": "137812", "serial": "**REDACTED**", "temperature": null, "temperature_c": null, "temperature_calibrated": 46, "battery": "ok", "battery_voltage": null, "thumbnail": "https://rest-u004.immedia-semi.com/api/v3/media/accounts/xxxxx/thumbnail.jpg?ts=1703712605&ext=", "video": null, "recent_clips": [], "motion_enabled": true, "motion_detected": false, "wifi_strength": null, "network_id": 52188, "sync_module": "Home", "last_record": null, "type": "xt" }, — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#106509 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB3GVBEFCFD2GJGKE5RINDTYL4S5VAVCNFSM6AAAAABBEY45QOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTQNZSGMZDOMRQGE> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kwkid]

For what it's worth...the Blink app still continues to show the "Connection to Wi-Fi" under General Settings / Network for each device...If the API now returns NULL for this value, then pls advise and i will remove the sensor from my dashboards.

[mkmer]

Just need to do some digging - had to know where to look :)

[mkmer]

Looks like they moved the keys :( Once there is a new release for the API we can update HA.
It appears they have changed the scale for these entities - 0-5 rather than dBm. Do you recall if we actually had dBm in the entity value or was it 0-5 when it was last working?

[kwkid]

interesting....we actually had dBm values...

[kwkid]

Have noticed that with the latest Blink update as part of Home Assistant 2024.1.3 that the wifi_strength has now returned but like you said it has values of 0 - 5. Previously the wifi_strength was expressed in dBM. Would you happen to know how values of 0 - 5 equate to dBM ?

[mkmer]

5 = 100%, not sure how that equates to the previous dBm. It looks like this new representation matches with the "bars" on the WIFI icon in the app.
The new keys were addressed in the API update, but I wasn't allowed to fix the units until the next major release (2024.2.1) as it's considered "breaking". In 2024.2 it will become unit-less via PR#107539.