Blynk - How do we install the library?

[Kris Hamilton]

Hey all,

Having just received my Omega, eager to start programming.

I was wondering if any knows how to install the Blynk library on the Omega? or how to actually connect the Omega to Blynk?

Thanks

[Kit Bishop]

A quick Google search seems to indicate that it isn't available yet but someone is working on it.
See: http://community.blynk.cc/t/how-to-get-blynk-running-on-openwrt/734 and http://community.blynk.cc/t/hardware-supported-by-blynk/16

[Kris Hamilton]

Thanks Kit, appreciate the links.

It would seem the hardware support list may need updating as Blynk has Onion Omega listed in the iOS app.

[Boken Lin]

@Kris-Hamilton Yup, we are actually working with the Blynk team on this right now. Blynk does support the Raspberry Pi, and the Raspbian is relatively similar to OpenWRT, so they should have it working soon!

[Kris Hamilton]

Thats awesome! Thanks for the update @Boken-Lin.

[Kris Hamilton]

Hey @Boken-Lin , just wondering if there is any update on Blynk?

[James Sinnott]

I would also like to be able to use Blynk

[Daniel Sitnik]

You could install it on your PC and then transfer the node_modules folder over to the Omega.

I've done it myself but unfortunatelly it doesn't work. I don't know if it's because of the nodejs version on the Omega or something else, but it doesn't keep the connection with Blynk cloud open. Right now it's pretty much useless.

[Boken Lin]

Hi @Kris-Hamilton, First of all, with regards to the Blynk accounts, I believe the Blynk team is performing some upgrades to their service this month, and as soon as the upgrades are done (their estimate is mid February), they will be releasing the Blynk accounts so that you can use Blynk to control boards such as the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.

Second, integration with the Omega is still underway. It took much longer than expected because it seems that our GPIO library wasn't compatible with their program, so we are making a few changes to our GPIO library so that the Blynk app can make use of it to control the Omega.

Cheers!

[Kris Hamilton]

Hey @Boken-Lin, thanks for the update.

[Shawn Ferris]

@Boken-Lin Any details yet? Even if we can't use it on the onion, it'd be nice to have the license so we can at least familiarize ourselves with it on something else in the meantime?

[Matt Ogborne]

Hi Shawn,

You could use Bylnk with NodeJS, however it turns out I'm not the only one having issues installing npm installing new packages https://community.onion.io/topic/621/error-while-trying-to-install-with-npm

Also as a reference once that issue is resolved, you can follow the guide here http://www.instructables.com/id/Blynk-JavaScript-in-20-minutes-Raspberry-Pi-Edison/ & here https://github.com/vshymanskyy/blynk-library-js

Matt

[Daniel Sitnik]

I still can't use Blynk on the Omega, even with the latest opkg nodejs package.

I have installed Blynk through NPM in another machine and just copied over the node_modules folder to the Omega.
When trying to run a simple script I get an error when it's trying to connect to the blynk cloud:

events.js:146
      throw err;
      ^

Error: Uncaught, unspecified "error" event. (ENOTFOUND)
    at emit (events.js:144:17)
    at Blynk.error (/root/blynk/node_modules/blynk-library/blynk.js:569:8)
    at null.<anonymous> (/root/blynk/node_modules/blynk-library/blynk.js:532:48)
    at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    at emit (events.js:169:7)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/root/blynk/node_modules/blynk-library/blynk-node.js:56:7)
    at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
    at connectErrorNT (net.js:997:8)
    at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:437:9)

I manually changed some code in the library to print out the real error and this is what I found:

getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND http://cloud.blynk.cc http://cloud.blynk.cc:8442

I'm guessing it might be related to the problem some people is having when trying to install stuff through NPM.

[Matt Ogborne]

Howdy Daniel,

Well you got further than I did! And yea looks like the issue is related to IPv6 as Zheng Han has just hinted at.

Hope this gets resolved shortly, it's external tools & apps like Blynk that make the implementation of the Omega into the real world possible (without a degree in nerd) :).

Matt

[Shawn Ferris]

Thanks Matt, I'm actually more interested in the license that I signed up for during the campaign. (Blynk + all widgets) I can wait for onion support if I can use one of my pi's in the meantime.

[Zheng Han]

@Shawn-Ferris we have provided Blynk with a list of all KS backers who have backed the Blynk bundle. They should already upgraded your account. If you think they have missed yours. Please shoot an email to hello@onion.io with your detailed info.

[Zheng Han]

With the new 0.0.8 firmware release you can now install blynk-library with npm. We are aware that the disk space on the Omega is limited. There will be a more compact version of Blynk library that you can install with opkg soon.

[Kris Hamilton]

Hi @Zheng-Han, is there any further update on the compact Blynk library via OPKG?

[Michael Vowles]

As above??

[Anders Öster]

Awfully quiet about this.