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Hands-On Internet of Things with Blynk

By : Pradeeka Seneviratne
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Hands-On Internet of Things with Blynk

By: Pradeeka Seneviratne

Overview of this book

Blynk, known as the most user-friendly IoT platform, provides a way to build mobile applications in minutes. With the Blynk drag-n-drop mobile app builder, anyone can build amazing IoT applications with minimal resources and effort, on hardware ranging from prototyping platforms such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi 3 to industrial-grade ESP8266, Intel, Sierra Wireless, Particle, Texas Instruments, and a few others. This book uses Raspberry Pi as the main hardware platform and C/C++ to write sketches to build projects. The first part of this book shows how to set up a development environment with various hardware combinations and required software. Then you will build your first IoT application with Blynk using various hardware combinations and connectivity types such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Then you'll use and configure various widgets (control, display, notification, interface, time input, and some advanced widgets) with Blynk App Builder to build applications. Towards the end, you will learn how to connect with and use built-in sensors on Android and iOS mobile devices. Finally you will learn how to build a robot that can be controlled with a Blynk app through the Blynk cloud and personal server. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience building IoT applications using Blynk.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Using the administration interface

Refer to the following steps:

  1. You can open the administration interface by entering the following address in a web browser:
https://IP_ADDRESS:9443/admin
  1. Type in the default administrator credentials to log in. Here are the default login credentials for admin:
  2. Click Sign-in to log in to the administrator interface:
Administrator interface
  1. You will then see the dashboard:
Dashboard
  1. In the left-hand list, click Users. You will get the list of user accounts registered with your local Blynk server, including the admin:
Users list
  1. In the left-hand navigation pane, click Config. You will get a list of configurations for the following:
    • twitter4j.properties: This is required for Twitter notification
    • single_token_mail_body.txt
    • server.properties: Settings related to the server
    • mail.properties...