9.3 Blynk Tutorial

Setup Blynk

1. Go to Blynk Official Website

2. Sign Up for a new account and login

3. Once you get redirected to Blynk Console, go to Developer Zone > My Templates and click the "New Template Button"

4. Give the project name and description (optional)

5. After creating the project, navigate to "Datastreams" and click the "edit" button

6. Click on "New Datastream" button

7. Click on "Virtual Pin"

8. You can leave everything as it is for now and click "Create".

Note: There are different data types available (Integer, Double, and String). You may need to change this depending on your needs, but for now we are going to use integer.

9. Now go to the Web Dashboard section and drag the "Switch" to the dashboard

Note: you can adjust the layout of the "Switch" by dragging the small arrow in the bottom right corner

10. Hover your cursor on the "Switch" and click the setting icon

11. Change the Title to "LED" (Optional) and select Integer V0 (V0) for the Datastream, then click the "Save" button

Note: Usually after selecting the datastream, additional options will show. For this tutorial I've set the On/Off label for demonstration purpose, however keep it mind that this is optional.

12. Now select "Devices" in the Blynk Console side bar and click the "New Device" button

13. Click "From Template"

14. Choose the template that we've created previously and click the "Create" button