Control Device option not available for Automation

[John93]

@alvelloso

I need to implement a variable data transfer like the old Bridge widget.

That’s not possible.
the automation is just a trigger that will preform an action based on certain condition.
to send data between devices like the old blynk bridge widget, you can check this

Webhook widget

Okay, I’ve been doing some testing this afternoon. I’ve been using an ESP32 and the HTTPClient.h library. I’ve not tested with an ESP8266 and the ESP8266HTTPClient.h library, but I wouldn’t expect the results to be much different. I’ve managed to use the HTTPS API call with both the BlynkSimpleEsp32.h and BlynkSimpleEsp32_SSL.h libraries, however, the response times from the HTTPS API call are much longer than when using the HTTP API call. I guess this is what was causing @Blynk_Coeur’s -5 err…