Blynk Server on RPi 3 (Solved)

Dixi,

Check out my post for the answer here: Help needed with running local server at start-up, Rasp Pi 3

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Here is my cheat sheet, hopefully it will help:

HOW TO CONFIGURE BLYNK LOCAL SERVER:

1 - Login to Raspberry Pi
2- Open Terminal
3- Install Java8
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-jdk

4- Check Java version
java -version

5- Create Blynk directory
Mkdir Blynk

6- Change directory from root “pi” to “Blynk” directory
cd Blynk

7- Download Blynk server file package
wget “https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-server/releases/download/v0.39.4/server-0.39.4-java8.jar”

8- Manual start Blynk server
java -jar server-0.39.4-java8.jar -dataFolder /home/pi/Blynk

9- At this point, the Blynk Server successfully started. Take a note on login ID and password for the web portal. To get out of this terminal windows, press CTRL+C

10- Enable Blynk server auto start each time power failure or hardware reboot
a. Open Terminal and type: sudo leafpad
b. Browse to FileSystem\etc\rc.local then add this line as below then save it.
java -jar /home/pi/Blynk/server-0.39.4-java8.jar -dataFolder /home/pi/Blynk &

         c. At the Terminal, type: crontab –e
        d. Add the following line then save it.
                @reboot java -jar /home/pi/Blynk/server-0.39.4-java8.jar -dataFolder /home/pi/Blynk &
        e.  Reboot the server then Blynk should automatically start