A bit confused

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Hi !

I subscribed to the Kickstarter campaign. I bought 1 set for IOS

I haven’t started to “blynk” yet, as I’m still expecting my Ethernet shield, but I have a few questions:

  • I looks like there is no fee for using Blynk. If it’s the case, what have I bought on Kickstarter then ?
  • Can I “talk” to more than one Arduino, provided they each have their own Ethernet shield ?
  • Can I “talk” the the same Arduino, using either my Iphone or my Android tablet ? If so, how ?

I seriously think that you guys need to spend a bit of time, and create a decent user’s manual, that would answer all these questions. You have a promising product, but without proper documentation, you will only get a fraction of your potential clients !

I bought a DAEnetIP1 (www.denkovi.com) which is roughly doing (with a specific hardware) what yours is doing. It had the worst ever written user’s manual. It is now collecting dust. Needless to say, I did not recommend it to anyone !

Let’s make sure the same does not happen to Blynk !

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Jasmin,

You can start Blynking even without a shield. Some extra steps are needed to do so. @vshymanskyy can help you with that. Check the USB example in our library - it has all the instructions.

I don’t know if you follow our updates on Kickstarter, but we explained everything there: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/167134865/blynk-build-an-app-for-your-arduino-project-in-5-m/posts/1216144

  • Yes, of course, just use the same Auth Token on every Arduino
  • yes, almost :slight_smile: Just login with the same account. However in future it will work differently.

We were making Blynk so that no manuals are needed. Everything is pretty self-explanatory or is present in the examples. We plan to post video tutorials though.

Thanks!

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Well I agree with Jasmin on the user manual part. For example, coding with Spark (well I mean Particle now) is great because the document is very precise and accurate, and with lots of example on each functions.
Yesterday I got blynk working, but I had to dig into the library .h to understand what is needed (no example provided for Particle core yet).
I am still a bit confused by what do you call a virtual pin for example. I couldn’t understand if the data is typed, I mean if I write a boolean or a long into a virtual pin, will it do the same?

So far the platform seems to be working, which is already a huge step specially considering that you delivered for Android and IOS and arduino/spark/orthers on the same day. That was ambitious!
Now I expect I will be able to build what I want quickly without reaching this forum too often for support.

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I agree more support would be helpful to me.

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