Blynk IoT

Simple to use well documented good entry level option reliable and very broad support The only downside for me is the lack of stepped plans … next plan up for me is 10x the price so I am a bit stuck!

The older version of Blynk was so much easier for a beginner such as myself to use. It is such a shame that we don’t have the choice of which version to use. Maybe Blynk could create a Blynk light version based on the older version if we can not have the option to use the older version.

Update: Despite my many and bitter. misgivings (detailed below) I decided to migrate our project to the new Blynk. What a pain! Very convoluted this obviously now aimed at commercial IOT deployment where someone has many hours to create ‘templates’ and virtual ‘devices’ to communicate to your real devices. Layers of work. Sadly I found many Arduino sketch errors in the documentation. Not good. The final kick in the pants is that to get a graph of any output you need to subscribe. The free option has very limited ‘widgets’ with which to display your data. Subscription is expensive either at £5.99 a month which unlock a few more options or for more options a HUGE £41.99 a month; Beyond many hobby users budget. Which options you get for the lower fee is unclear until you actually pay. Nasty. So let’s see is it: Easy to use? No Cheap or good value? No Clear to see what you get? No Well documented? No Does it work after you’ve put in the hard work and paid ? Yes Is our old family Blynk project alive again? Yes In the end it’s a sell-out and a cash-in. It works but I resent the exploitation. As we say here ‘it’s having your eyes out’. Original review follows: I loved the old Blynk: Easy to use and code with my Arduino and ESP devices. Really easy to connect and display remote data generated by these cheap but amazing things. I used it to teach my kids and others how to get data and send data to home made IoT devices. Great. The essence of making. However : new Blynk. Ugh! Geared to pre-made commercial branded hardware. What a nightmare. It’s obviously chasing the money in the enterprise market. Now they are killing support for the old Blynk. Well, thanks. This is the kind of vile sell out that will eventually kill open source. Don’t invest too much time in this they’ll sell out again when a larger corporation buys them and they’ll shut down your new projects too. Update: Well it happened. A day later than they said, a day later of hoping that they had changed their minds; an 11th hour death row pardon perhaps. But sadly it did and it was a difficult moment: It always is when something you brought into the world dies. The legacy server was pulled and my little ESP project that I first breathed life into finally transmitted its last bit of data. He was the result of an idea, some nice code and some snazzy waterproof hardware and several years of refinement and nurture of software and hardware

Whilst this will work on an iPad, it is designed for iPhone and uses the 2x option to fill an iPad screen. Shame, it would be great to have a dedicated ipad option

I used Blynk legacy for many years before crossing to this new version. It’s a little bit daunting to get started but once you grasp how it all works it really is a very powerful and versatile tool. You can get an idea how it works without having any costs but unless you are a wizard code writer it’s well worth the small subscription fee to get a lot more widgets and to be honest there’s nothing out there that even comes close to the power of this product paid for or not.

Don’t use this if you are trying to use Blynk to display data from your own iot hardware

Its easy to use and coding not flexible

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