Blynk cloud moving to new host blynk-cloud.com

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Dear Blynkers,

Due to technical reasons we need to move to a new Blynk Cloud host: blynk-cloud.com.
Please update to latest blynk library ASAP.

Old domain name will be working for few a weeks and will be turned off after that.

Please reprogram all your devices.

Sorry for any inconvenience, but it’s all for good!

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um, so does this mean we need to re-program all our devices?

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@Dave1829 yes. to avoid possible problems in future.

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my current library is 0.3.5-beta - do i need to upgrade?

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my IDE also says :
Specified folder/zip file does not contain a valid library

when i try to add the 0.3.4 zip linked above…

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@Dave1829 the zip file doesn’t contain a library it contains 5 libraries and that is why the IDE will not process it.

See https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-library/releases/tag/v0.3.4 for details of the new release and the structure of the libraries.

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thanks for dumbing it down for us simpletons :slight_smile:

but i unzipped them and tried to add the folders, but it still says i am using 0.3.5 beta?

how do i add the 0.3.4 library?

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You need to remove the beta library I think. I guess Arduino IDE wants to use the newest one.

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i deleted the library from the arduino/libraries folder, found 0.3.4

thanks!

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do i need to change any of these lines:

byte arduino_mac[] = {0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED };
IPAddress arduino_ip (192, 168, 2, 211);
IPAddress dns_ip     (192, 168, 2, 1);
IPAddress gateway_ip (192, 168, 2, 1);
IPAddress subnet_mask(255, 255, 255, 0);

 Blynk.begin(authBlynk, "blynk-cloud.com", 8442, arduino_ip, dns_ip, gateway_ip, subnet_mask, arduino_mac);
  while (!Blynk.connect()) {
    // Wait until connected
  }

is this correct?

maybe there is something else wrong with my Mega & W5100 setup?

it is jsut connecting:

[14] Using static IP
[1316] My IP: 128.80.2.0
[5001] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442
[10002] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442
[15003] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442
[20004] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442
[25005] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442
[30006] Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:8442

i’ll start a new thread tomorrow…

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Everything seems correct (if other your params correct).

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Is there a reason you can’t change the DNS for the cloud.blynk.cc subdomain to the new host instead of requiring a new domain?

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@joshhighley yes. Amazon Route53 doesn’t support *.cc domains.

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…which is a real bummer! :angry:

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Maybe this is off topic, but is that by design or a bug?

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This is by design. I suppose it is not easy to add support for new top level domain name.

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It probably has nothing to do with design. It’s more of an administrative issue. They probably are not allowed by ICANN to host such domains.

DNS can be a pain in the butt, I know …

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Really nice. Just loaded and installed from “www.blynk.cc/getting-started” page new version which seem still to be v0.3.3. Not much help for this issue :grin:

edit: Will this be the only announcement about the server change, no personal emails for registered users nor front page banners ?

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@kariky perhaps try the link in the announcement itself (above) which will give you version 0.3.4.

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Thank you i already got it, no problem.

Just wondering for how long beginners will be offered older version which requires immediate update released more than a week ago :confused: