Arduino IDE compiling for Raspberry Pi

[ArtiB]

Hi all

Loving Blynk - made a great project for a NodeMCU which was relatively easy and works great.

Second project will be on a Pi I have lying around - but I’m struggling.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

I have followed a few videos and have installed all the necessary bits to get IDE to compile for the Pi - simple code works fine. I have also installed Blynk onto the Pi and can start it and it goes live - I can see on my App that it is online.

But I cannot seem to get an IDE compiled code to work. A simple code seems to stall at the “Blynk.begin(…” command and Blynk does not start. If I try add the various libraries that I need then it won’t compile!!

This code is the closest I have got:

#include <BlynkSimpleEthernet.h>

char auth[] = "579...."

void setup() {
Console.println ("hello from startup 1");
delay(1000);
Console.println ("hello from startup 2");
Blynk.begin(auth);
Console.println("Blynk begun");

}

void loop() {

Console.println ("hello from loop");

Blynk.run();
Console.println("got here");
}

I get the first 2 comments “hello from…” but nothing more, Blynk doesnt seem to start and I dont get the “Blynk begun” comment or anything else.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[ArtiB]

Hi

Anyone have any advice for me on this?

Thanks
Arthur

[Gunner]

@ArtiB

#include <BlynkSimpleEthernet.h>

I have no idea if this library will work on a RPi… you appear to be using C++ code, thus should be following the WiringPi method for a Blynk client running on a RPi.

Using C++ on a Raspberry Pi with Blynk

This post is in response to recent posts regarding Blynk and Raspberry Pi’s. Most of the example sketches you will see are written for Arduino’s and ESP’s. If you have “javascript” skills there’s a small selection of scripts that can be used with nodejs on the Pi. However there are some Blynkers that are much more familiar with C++ than they are with JS. In the “linux” directory of the Blynk libraries there is a shell script and a Makefile for compiling C code for the Pi and other linux device…

Other client options are NodeJS and Python…

GitHub - vshymanskyy/blynk-library-js: Blynk library for JS. Works with...

GitHub - vshymanskyy/blynk-library-python: Blynk library for Python. Works...

[ArtiB]

Thanks Gunner

I will have to work through this to make sense of it.

Arthur

[ArtiB]

Thanks to Gunner I am now up and running!!

Have a noob question though:

I was used to the Arduino IDE environment and liked its look and feel. Is it possible to compile the main.cpp from this IDE or a similar environment? It is more difficult writing in the text editor and easier to make silly errors…

Arthur

[Gunner]

I have no idea… I stopped trying to use C++ with the RPi a year ago, I find both NodeJS and Python much easier in the RPi environment.

[marvin7]

@ArtiB

I was used to the Arduino IDE environment and liked its look and feel.

C’mon Is there any worse IDE than Arduino?? Yes,I’m still using it (although I was forced to use platformio with one project lately, and I liked it), BUT for MORE ADVANCED project much, much easier is with external editor: Notepad++, Geany… just to name some of them…

[ArtiB]

Thanks Gunner, Marvin

Just checked out Notepad++ - looks to be very powerful and will give it a try!