Code isn't working without connected Blynk

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It’s a little more complicated than it first seems but the 2 basic steps are:

'1. Bail out of the while loop that you MUST have in setup()

int mytimeout = millis() / 1000;
while (Blynk.connect() == false) { 
  if((millis() / 1000) > mytimeout + 8){  // try for less than 9 seconds
    break;
  }
}

'2. Only process blynk.run() in the main loop() when you are connected.

  if(Blynk.connected()){
    Blynk.run();
  }

Further requirements are SimpleTimer to check if router / server is now running so a connection to Blynk can be made etc.

HTH

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