If you have done any wifi base station analysis, or used passive wireless analysis tools like wavemon or Kismet to monitor your local RF environment, you may have spotted a persistent, unidentified hidden Wi-Fi network broadcasting on the exact same channel and frequency as your primary access points.

The mystery access point typically broadcasts an encrypted hidden beacon with an unrecognizable MAC address prefix like 62:45:b8:.... It doesn’t match known vendor OUIs in IEEE databases, and it frequently triggers “Rogue AP” alerts on managed access points.

Blink security cameras are an affordable home security camera system. Although they lack a formal public API, inventive devs have reverse-engineered their private API to allow for better integration.

Here we’ll use AWS IOT Core, Lambda and node-blink-security to arm and disarm Blink security cameras using an AWS IOT Button.

Activating Your IOT Button

The IOT Button must be configured to your account, which includes joining it to your wifi access point, and installing the client certificates.