Molemi IoT
  • Space farming using food computers for sustainable farming
  • Introduction to Arduino
    • Introduction to Electronics
    • The Breadboard
  • Controlling LEDs with an Arduino
    • The Code
    • Adding a button to control the LEDs
      • The Code
  • Introducing Sensors
    • The CO2 and air quality sensor
    • The Code
      • Explaining the Code
    • Light Intensity Sensor
  • Introducing the NodeMCU
    • Getting Started
      • A simple test for ESP8266
        • The Code
    • A light bulb switch using NodeMCU and the Blynk app
      • Setup Blynk on your Smartphone
      • The Code
    • Controlling a Centurion gate Motor with NodeMCU a 2-channel relay
      • Installing Blynk in Arduino IDE
    • Read and display the water flow sensor on Blynk
      • Setting up Blynk
      • The Code
        • Explaining the code
    • Read and Display temperature sensor readings with NodeMCU.
      • Installing libraries for DS18B20 temperature sensor.
      • Displaying the sensor readings on the serial port
        • Getting temperature readings from different DS18B20 sensors.
          • The Code
            • Display sensor readings on a web server
              • Build the web server
                • Designing and building the web page
                • The Code
    • Display the DHT11 sensor reading on a web server using NodeMCU.
      • Monitoring Room Temp & Humidity using Blynk
      • Installing DHT library on the ESP8266
        • Installing the Asynchronous Web Server library
          • The Code
          • Designing and building the web page
  • Data Science for Farming
    • Getting Started with Colaboratory
    • Introduction to Python for DS using Colab
  • Machine Learning for Farming
  • Molemi Personal Food Computer
    • Bill of Materials
  • Setting up WaziGate on a Raspberry Pi
  • Setting up DHT11 on Raspberry Pi
  • Using Telegram To Control Outputs
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Installing Blynk in Arduino IDE

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This activity will show you how to setup the Blynk platform on the Arduino IDE software. There are three ways to do that:

  1. Using built-in library manager in Arduino IDE.

  2. Installing Blynk library as a zip file in Arduino IDE.

  3. Manually install Blynk library.

  1. Use the built-in library manager in Arduino IDE

To install the Blynk library, open the Arduino IDE and click on the Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries

Once the library manager opens, search for "blynk" in the search bar and in the version, select the latest one:

Lastly, click on install. This may take a while to download and install. Once it is done you can find the new blynk library by clicking Sketch > Include Library .

2. Install Blynk as zip file in Arduino

Once you have downloaded the zip file, don't unzip it. Just leave it as is

In the Arduino IDE, navigate to Sketch > Include Library > Add .Zip Library

Once prompted, add the zip file.

Return to the Sketch > Include Library menu. menu. You should now see the library at the bottom of the drop-down menu. It is ready to be used in your sketch. The zip file will have been expanded in the libraries folder in your Arduino sketches directory.

3.

Download the Blynk library from the following link:

https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-library/releases/latest
Opening the library manager (help.blynk.cc)
selecting the latest version of Blynk (help.blynk.cc)