I assumed this would be a rant against cloud services, but alas, no. I do find it doubtful that OP couldn’t skip most of their setup, though; if you have HomeA

I assumed this would be a rant against cloud services, but alas, no. I do find it doubtful that OP couldn’t skip most of their setup, though; if you have HomeAssistant (which they do), and there’s a direct path from Blink -> Alexa, I’m fairly certain HA could then handle triggering the Google Home Mini devices on its own. Or, you know, doorbell chimes.