Blynk 2.0 Text input

j3duck · October 30, 2021, 7:07pm

Hey guys,

I bought the premium 2.0 trying to input text through the app onto an Arduino project and am struggling. Does anyone know the best route to go about solving this? I’ve tried both text input and terminal, both of which were unsuccessful? That could just be my lack of knowledge. If that’s the case, it would be very much appreciated if someone had an example of them doing that.

Best,
Jared

PeteKnight · October 30, 2021, 7:19pm

What datastream type did you use?

Pete.

j3duck · October 30, 2021, 8:55pm

I am using V1

Jared

John93 · October 30, 2021, 8:57pm

How did you configure the datastream ?
Some screenshots please ?

j3duck · October 30, 2021, 9:03pm

John93 · October 30, 2021, 9:04pm

Not the app, the console

PeteKnight · October 30, 2021, 9:05pm

But what data type did you use for your V1 datastream?

Pete.

j3duck · October 30, 2021, 9:11pm

I am using an esp8266

j3duck · October 30, 2021, 9:12pm

What do you mean by the counsol

John93 · October 30, 2021, 9:14pm

Blynk.cloud

PeteKnight · October 30, 2021, 9:22pm

@j3duck you should probably start by reading this…

https://docs.blynk.io/en/blynk.console/templates/datastreams

Pete.

Madhukesh · October 31, 2021, 10:47pm

While you setup your datastream as V1, you would have seen a option called datastream type. There you need to select “STRING” as your type. Not “INTEGER OR DOUBLE”.