Pervasive Systems Individual Project:

Blynk

Davide Meacci, La Sapienza

 What is Blynk?
Blynk is a Platform with iOS and
Android apps to control Arduino,
Raspberry Pi and the likes over the
Internet.

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It's a digital dashboard
where you can build a
graphic interface for
your project by simply
dragging and dropping
widgets.

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 But most importantly...

It is really simple!
To set up all the required environment
(Server, Client and Board)
5 minutes are more than enough.

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 Now, a lil’ bit of
history...

16 January 2015 14 February 2015 27 March 2015 12 May 2015

Start! Successfully Beta Live

raised $49,235 release
USD

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What devices are
supported?
- Arduino (and the likes)
- Energia
- Particle
- ARM mbed (soon)

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 See full list on Blynk website
● Arduino (https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-library) ● Energia
○ Uno, Duemilanove (select "UNO" in the list, not the ○ Texas Instruments
"Due") ■ CC3200-LaunchXL
○ Nano, Mini, Pro Mini, Pro Micro, Due, Mega ■ Tiva C Connected LaunchPad
○ Arduino 101 ■ Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad
○ Arduino MKR1000 ○ RedBearLab (CC3200, WiFi Mini)
○ Arduino Yún (onboard WiFi and Ethernet, via Bridge) ● Particle (formerly Spark: https://github.
● Arduino-like
com/vshymanskyy/blynk-library-spark)
○ ESP8266 (running standalone, using https://github.
○ Core
com/esp8266/Arduino)
○ Photon
○ Intel Edison
○ RedBear Duo
○ Intel Galileo
● ARM mbed (soon)
○ LinkIt ONE
○ Wicked WildFire (CC3000) ○ Seeed Tiny BLE
○ TinyCircuits TinyDuino (CC3000) ○ RedBearLab BLE Nano
○ LightBlue Bean , soon ○ BBC Micro:bit

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How it connects?
- Ethernet
- WiFi
- Bluetooth LE
- Serial USB
- 3G
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What can i do with it?

Everything
(regarding IoT)

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 How it works?
There are three major components in the platform:

- Blynk App

- Blynk Server

- Blynk Libraries

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How it works?

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 Main Operations
Blynk allows us to:

- Interact with Pins (Digital and

Analog)

- Send and Receive data from

Hardware

How?
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… with Widgets!
4 main types:
- Controllers
- Displays
- Notifications
- Others
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Common widget settings

- Pin setup (Analog/digital)

- Data Mapping
- Split/Merge

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Controllers
- Button

- Slider

- Timer

- Joystick
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 Displays
- Display - LCD

- LED - Gauge

- Graph
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Notifications and Other
- Twitter

- Bridge

- Email

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Is it possible to run a
local server?
The answer, of course, is YES.

1. download the Web-server from the Website

2. start the server locally
3. set up Router to enable port-forwarding
4. Set the server from the Blynk App

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 Pros and Cons
PROS: CONS:
- easy & simple - lack of documentation for some
devices
- many features
- no additional hardware - can’t make own widgets

- active community
- not made to implement
- cool GUI complex proejcts

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Questions?

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Thank You!

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