Blink Camera MCP server

blink-camera-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.AbhijatSaxena/blink-camera-mcp -->

An MCP server for Amazon Blink cameras, including the pan/tilt mount that Blink's own API gives you no way to move.

Install it with uvx blink-camera-mcp. It is listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.AbhijatSaxena/blink-camera-mcp.

Give any MCP host — Claude Desktop, an IDE agent, your own client — the ability to see where a camera is pointing, aim it, and look through it.

camera_status       where it points, travel limits, session state, stream URL
pan_tilt            aim at an absolute angle, wait until the hardware confirms
pan_tilt_nudge      turn relative to where it points now
pan_tilt_stop       stop the motors
pan_tilt_home       go to the saved home position
pan_tilt_set_home   save the current angle as home
pan_tilt_overview   360° sweep
snapshot            one still frame, returned as image content

Why this exists

Blink cameras are cloud devices. There is no local API, no ONVIF, no UVC — video exists only as a short-lived session brokered by Blink's cloud, capped at 300 seconds. Two consequences:

driven inside the camera's media session, and its position comes back on the same socket. A client that reads only the video and skips every other message never sees any of that traffic, which is why the mount has looked uncontrollable for years.

1. Anything that wants to use the camera has to hold that session open and refresh it.
2. The pan/tilt mount is not a device you can talk to. It has no endpoint of its own: it is

This server owns the session (or reuses one), frames it correctly, routes the accessory messages, and exposes the whole thing as MCP tools with closed-loop semantics.

Install

pip install blink-camera-mcp          # or without installing: uvx blink-camera-mcp

The distribution is blink-camera-mcp; the command it installs is blink-mcp.

You need Python 3.10+, a Blink account, and ffmpeg on PATH for snapshot (set BLINK_FFMPEG if it lives somewhere unusual).

Configure

Credentials come from the environment, and only the first run needs them:

export BLINK_USERNAME="you@example.com"
export BLINK_PASSWORD="..."
export BLINK_CAMERA_NAME="Front Door"      # optional; defaults to the only camera

The token is cached (token material only — a password is never written to disk), so later runs need no credentials. Cache location defaults to ~/.blink-mcp/state.json; override with BLINKSTATEFILE.

If Blink asks for a 2FA code, the server will not prompt you and will not take the code from anywhere but a file:

export BLINK_2FA_FILE=/path/to/code.txt

Write the newest code into that file; it is read once and deleted. This keeps a live credential out of chat logs, shell history and argument lists.

Add it to your MCP host

blink-mcp --print-config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blink": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["blink-camera-mcp", "--stream-port", "9000"]
    }
  }
}

Hosts that manage their own Python (Claude Desktop, VS Code, LM Studio, …) run uvx as above. If you installed it into a virtualenv instead, set command to that interpreter and args to ["-m", "blink_mcp", …].

Claude Desktop — one-click

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.