Error: Connecting to blynk-cloud.com:443

[PeteKnight]

The guys at Blynk have now said that it’d not possible to resolve the problem, so SSL connection to the cloud servers is no longer possible.

You need to switch to a non-SSL connection…

ESP8266 SSL connections down using Blynk_WiFiManager (ESP32 works fine, non-SSL 8266 works fine)

Hey everyone. Unfortunately that’s the only cure for this issue. We’re sincerely sorry for this, but due to some technical limitations, as well as the fact that we’re fully focused on the New Blynk Platform release, we’re not going to fix this particular issue. Ideally, we’d have to move all certificates to Let’sEncrypt, instead of self-signed certificates. But due to technical reasons, we cannot perform such migration (it would impact a much broader audience, make even more devices unusable…

Pete.