However there seems to be a “value” missing property where I can check if my button has been set HIGH or LOW on the Blynk app, any way I can get around this?
Button has no value until it is initialized (clicked or inited with virtualWrite). You may just perform click on it after creation and value will appear.
I see, that probably means I’d have to initialize the button using virtualwrite although I only need commands going to the hardware from the app.
Sorry I am very much new to this and would like to speed up my learning process, do you guys have any documentation for syntax referencing and key contents?
Not necessarily… reread Dmitriy’s comment… I believe what he means is until that initial click of the widget in the app, it has no status, however, after that it will be either LOW/0 or HIGH/1
Yeap @Gunner is right. @Marco_Mkhize You may init button with value by clicking on it during “run” mode. In that case you’ll manually assign initial value.
@Marco_Mkhize Out of curiosity… how are you reading the widget status… do you have to keep opening a log file, or are you somehow actively seeing the data in realtime? I have Local Server as well, but have never needed to see the raw data, nor do I quite understand what you would use it for.
The data is stored in a log file. I’m monitoring the data using:
http://blynk-cloud.com/auth_token/project with refreshing the URL every time I change a widget status. I’m receiving feedback on the local server when I change other widget button properties (label, min, max, etc.) on the app, but the “value” property doesn’t show up, even when I’m running the app (@Dmitriy).
@Marco_Mkhize this is what a button should look like when HIGH:
{“type”:“BUTTON”,“id”:11,“x”:4,“y”:3,“color”:79755519,“width”:4,“height”:2,“tabId”:0,“label”:" ",“deviceId”:0,“pinType”:“VIRTUAL”,“pin”:5,“pwmMode”:false,“rangeMappingOn”:false,“min”:0,“max”:1,“value”:“1”,“pushMode”:false,“onLabel”:“”,“offLabel”:“”},
Somehow the “value” parameter is not coming up for buttons, indicators/LEDs have the “active” property showing and active whenever the status is changed, except for the buttons.
This whole bit confuses me… you are apparently viewing your own Cloud Server data (didn’t know it was that easy), but then referring to feedback on the Local Server??
The Cloud Server and any of you own Local Servers are all totally separate things… Yes you can have the same (copy of) project on each, but when running the App, it will only be affecting the server you are logged into.
”,“offLabel”:“