When I was here in Spain (2018) in April working on the house controller, the mobile control package I keep going back to (Blynk) was improving but the RGB ZeRGBa (RGB)control was acting up when you put two or more on a single mobile screen. I put that to one…
Category: Blynk
The Spanish Project
Over time, I’ve trialled many mobile user interfaces for my home control endeavours, from Blynk, through MQTT Dashboard (and variations), Imperihome and the Node-Red dashboard (not to mention its predecessor Node-Red-Contrib-UI). For a while I settled on Imperihome but they were dead set on focussing on supporting every device known…
Pay Per Blynk
Updated 14/04/2016 after feedback from the designers and some more BLYNK development As of a few weeks ago, one of the contenders for the mobile IOT crown, Blynk, has gone properly commercial. Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing – but lets take a look at this in detail. A…
Visual Interfaces for IOT
So much happening right now – the new Raspberry Pi 3 once again sets the bar with improved performance, Bluetooth and WIFI as standard. With up to 10x the speed of the original Pi we can do even more serious work with these devices. Please note before proceeding – apparently…
Blynking Wonderful
As of yesterday, a new release of the Blynk App has been released which makes me want to look at this again. Regular readers know that I’m into the idea of using a central controller for home control – so that instead of trying to give every peripheral every feature…
UI Update
I’ve been busily beavering away at a commercial project for the last couple of weeks but that ends at the weekend and I hope to soon have some more reviews of new and interesting products for you including some surprisingly cheap SBCs. Meanwhile, close to the heart of many of…
Blynk Update
Updated 22/OCT/2015 : Rather than write another blog I’m updating this one in the light of new info. New features added to the Bynk App (which allows you to control various IOT gadgets from your phone – OR talk to Node-Red and hence to anything that Node-Red can talk to…
Blynk Graphing
This is just for one of the guys at Blynk to show the graphing – but for everyone else, the state of my current Blynk app – running on a local Blynk server on a Raspberry Pi. 2 graphs – one shows day, one shows 6 hours. Also shows how…
Drilling into Blynk
Yesterday I referred to using DELAY in Node-Red to slow down one of the Blynk controls. To backtrack a little… We’re talking here about controlling devices such as ESP8266 boards using MQTTT – which I maintain is the best way to have a boatload of devices around the place and…
A Better Day
A better day today. After switching my WIFI to a separate access point, up to now the WIFI is holding – I’m not convinced but for now all seems well. That has allowed me to spend a little more time with Blynk – and after chatting to the Node-Red node…
Blynk App
I’ve re-written this blog today – as the people at Blynk have been quite useful – promising to fix some items I’ve griped about/commented on. I hope they don’t mind me pinching some of their imagery. One of the problems with home control – is making a nice web interface…