Here it says 80, you said 120, then 100.
So whatever the number will be it’s subject to change at any moment? Now you have 80, then 100, then all of a suden you have to spend 600$ for the next plan if you need to keep the current setup?
If you could pay per month based on the number of devices, it would be great for the makers!
It would be great to pay for what you use.
We understand that you are not a charity, but for example the Arduino IOT costs 1.99 USD for 10 devices, I assume that they also make a profit from it. And it’s a price that even people from poorer countries can afford… 
I have tried many different platforms since the subscriptions plans of the new Blynk IoT changed, but the flexibility and widgets on offer are more compared to other IOT platforms.
The main thing is we cannot automate things, there is not even a time input widget on offer on other platforms to time our devices.
As they have more features on their plate they are confident enough to charge us more.
So i guess we have to understand the reality and start to live with it.
For makers its not cost effective, but cant help it.
It’s 3$ actually, so just 2 times cheaper. The difference is not that big (considering that Blynk offers more in data, datastreams, etc).
Taking into consideration the number of downloads - very unlikely. Looks like they decrease the price just to get at least somebody on board :).
And we add something new every week!
Why shouldn’t Blynk start to sell hardware? So one can buy and play with? Like one time buy and no restrictions for that particular hardware?
We’re considering this.
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Yes because blynk work fine without physical switch
Consider blynk screen (tablet) so that we can do away from hardware switch
The table should be able control without internet
@Bright_Adinkra I have no idea what your last two posts in this topic are meant to mean, and I doubt that anyone else does either.
If you have ideas of suggestions then I suggest that you try to articulate them in a more understandable way.
Pete.
Blynk is considering to build a hardware so am adding up to consider a wall mount touchscreen that will replace a physical switch and at the same time work without internet
You can use nextion display.
True, and that’s the approach I use.
However, I guess you could argue that you could use any existing hardware or ESP8266/ESP32 based boards to make your own devices - so why would Blynk even consider getting into their own hardware devices.
I think tha answer is convenience, and wanting an off the shelf pre-configured device that requires no “maker skills” to implement.
Personally, I think that Blynk should stick to software, and that competing in the hardware market is extremely difficult for a variety of reasons, but that’s not my business decision to make.
Offline systems, or ones that are tolerant to loss of internet connectivity, are getting into local server territory - which is a dangerous area if you want to avoid having people abusing the licencing again. It also adds a level of complexity that isn’t really compatible with off-the-shelf ready made solutions.
Pete.
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I understand this will happen and you are probably not in a position to say when. But do you have an idea of how much notice you will give your many loyal diy’ers when you do decide to pull the plug?
Sure, When we’ll make a decision we’ll do an announcement. Until than you’re safe 
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Good we will receive an announcement.
For reasons that have been articulated a number of times in this thread a number of diy’ers will not make a jump to blynk IoT until the functionality we use that has not been migrated from 2.0 to blynk IoT is migrated and/or the pricing is suitable.
So I will sit on the fence until pushed by an announcement. I’ve had a go at migrating and have everything ready but can’t make the jump due to price, the UI and missing functionality.
The question I have is when you tell us to get off the fence by shutting 1.0 down do you have in mind how long we have to move to either 2.0 or another platform.
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What functionality exactly?
Pete.
You’ll have 6 months for sure.
Most likely multiple devices on single dashboard.
Hi Pete
Thanks for asking.
Just to qualify. These are the things that matter to me that I’ve come to depend on over the years. But like my favourite pint of London pride. Change the formula or price because it’s not commercially viable any more and I’m bereft. Although I’ll probably shrug it off and drink skinners instead.
I suppose initially it was the time input. That has now been added back in. That was big for me. At the time it was mooted that when automations were fully flying the time input would be removed again. So I need to see how that pans out.
Device selector I use a lot. Very efficient for me.
More than one device within a project ui. I believe this is coming but it does limit me now from doing a 1 for 1 migration.
Tiles I use a lot and I know on blynk 1.0 I’m in a minority of 1. Blynk 2.0 is loosely based on tiles but I find it less attractive and efficient in the ui when I have quite a few devices. That may be quite particular to diy’ers where as business propositions may well have less. That said there is more interesting stuff available on the new tiles. The ability to have these tiles grouped say within tab would make it easier to navigate. At the moment scrolling through to find the device is less efficient.
Bridge I never used as it used to crash my esp. So I’ve always used the API calls which works well.
There’s always a compromise and workaround we get used to. I suppose my decision now not to jump is the cost, compromises and various workarounds are not attractive for me to move now.
The general functionality of blynk 2.0 is one thing. The plan structure is really the biggest impediment to moving over right now.
Hence the question how long will we have to find another pint or brew our own when the announcent comes.
Thanks. That will be welcome.
It would be great if the announcement was right in the Blynk Legacy app. I only found out by accident that the blynk is coming to an end. Probably all the emails (early registration, voucher…) you sent were spammed by gmail and deleted after a month…
I believe that many users do not yet know what will happen 
And what do you say to the proposal to pay per month according to the number of devices?