Site updated at 2017-05-20 22:59:15 UTC

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@@ -84,34 +84,36 @@
   <li>A sensor per camera that reports battery level.</li>
   <li>A sensor per camera that reports unread notification (ie. detected motion events).</li>
 </ul>
-<p>Since the cameras are battery operated, the images are only updated in Home Assistant when the user manually forces a new photo.  The image can only be updated in Home Assistant every 60 seconds in order to not overwhelm Blink’s servers with API requests.</p>
+<p>Since the cameras are battery operated, the images are only updated in Home Assistant when the user manually forces a new photo. This image can be updated with the <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.snap_picture</code> service followed by a <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.force_update</code> service call to force Home Assistant to request an update from Blink’s servers. If the <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.force_update</code> service is not called, the image will be updated within a 180 second interval, set so that automatic server requests don’t overwhelm the Blink API. As a note, all of the camera-specific sensors are only polled when a new image is requested from the camera. This means that relying on any of these sensors to provide timely and accurate data is not recommended.</p>
 <p>Services:
 There are three services availiabe for the blink platform:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>arm_system</li>
   <li>arm_camera</li>
   <li>snap_picture</li>
+  <li>force_update</li>
 </ul>
-<p>For arm_system, the value sent can be either “True” or “False” and will arm and disarm the whole blink system, respectively</p>
+<p>For <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.arm_system</code>, the value sent can be either “True” or “False” and will arm and disarm the whole blink system, respectively</p>
 <p>Arm system example</p>
 <div class="language-json highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
     </span><span class="nt">"device_armed"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"True"</span><span class="w">
 </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
 </span></code></pre>
 </div>
-<p>Arm camera follows a similar structure, but each indidivual camera can have motion detection enabled or disabled.  Because of this, you also need to supply a name.  For example, if I have a camera named “Living Room” and I want to turn off motion detection on that camera, I’d call the blink.arm_camera service with the following payload:</p>
+<p>Arm camera follows a similar structure, but each indidivual camera can have motion detection enabled or disabled.  Because of this, you also need to supply a name.  For example, if I have a camera named “Living Room” and I want to turn off motion detection on that camera, I’d call the <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.arm_camera</code> service with the following payload:</p>
 <div class="language-json highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
     </span><span class="nt">"friendly_name"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Living Room"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
     </span><span class="nt">"device_armed"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"False"</span><span class="w">
 </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
 </span></code></pre>
 </div>
-<p>The blink.snap_picture service takes the camera name as the payload and with take a new picture with your camera.</p>
+<p>The <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.snap_picture</code> service takes the camera name as the payload and with take a new picture with your camera.</p>
 <div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
     </span><span class="nt">"friendly_name"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"Living Room"</span><span class="w">
 </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
 </span></code></pre>
 </div>
+<p>The <code class="highlighter-rouge">blink.force_update</code> service can simply be called with no payload to force a server update.</p>
 <p>Configuration variables:</p>
 <ul>
   <li><strong>username</strong> (<em>Required</em>): Your username to login to Blink</li>
@@ -158,6 +160,9 @@ There are three services availiabe for the blink platform:</p>
         <li>
             <a href='/components/android_ip_webcam/'>Android IP Webcam</a>
         </li>
+        <li>
+            <a href='/components/axis/'>Axis</a>
+        </li>
         <li>
             <a href='/components/wemo/'>Belkin WeMo</a>
         </li>
@@ -203,6 +208,9 @@ There are three services availiabe for the blink platform:</p>
         <li>
             <a href='/components/joaoapps_join/'>Joaoapps Join</a>
         </li>
+        <li>
+            <a href='/components/kira/'>Kira</a>
+        </li>
         <li>
             <a href='/components/litejet/'>LiteJet</a>
         </li>