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This page is a collection of notes on different hardware, pitfalls, tutorial links, etc.

Arduino

Duemilanove

You have to select UNO in the Blynk App board type, not the DUE (which refers to the Arduino Due).

Mega/UNO/Nano + ESP8266 WiFi Shield

This connection type is very tricky to start with. [TODO]

Connecting Arduino over USB

[TODO]

ESP8266

Generic ESP8266, NodeMCU, Huzzah, WeMos D1, Seeed Wio Link, etc.

ESP8266-based boards can run Blynk directly on the ESP8266 chip, using this board support package: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

Particle Electron

NOTE: Blynk can consume quite a lot of data! Use carefully not no overpay for the data plan.

JavaScript (Node.js, Espruino)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/blynk-library

• Regular PC with Linux / Windows / OS X
• Single Board Computers (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Intel Edison/Galileo, ...)
• OpenWRT
• Espruino

Tutorials:

• https://www.hackster.io/vshymanskyy/blynk-javascript-in-20-minutes-3ee903
• https://www.hackster.io/vshymanskyy/raspberry-pi-node-js-blynk-app-dht11-dht22-am2302-c356a8?ref=user&ref_id=10859&offset=1

Python (MicroPython)

• WiPy