[SOLVED] How this combination ESP-01 and Arduino works

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Hi.
Could somebody, please, share how this combination ESP-01 and Arduino works?
Could somebody put some practical example of the sketch for Arduino as well?
We just pass variables via SoftwareSerial pins to ESP-01 and it communicates with Blynk?

As far as I understood, it is possible to connect Arduino and ESP-01 by 2 ways:

  1. Use ESP-01 as “modem”. No need to put any code on it. So Blynk will run on Arduino. Somebody has example of the sketch?
  2. Arduino and ESP-01 to be programmed. ESP-01 connects with Wi-Fi and Blynk and communicates with Arduino via SoftwareSerial. Somebody has example of the sketch?

I have special ESP-01 adapter. So, less problems with wiring. Only it looks to me that ESP-01 should not be powered directly from Arduino. Correct?

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Thank you

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Don’t forget to look around at the Documentation, Help Center and Sketch Builder for information and solutions for this and other questions.

E.g. this is the link for connecting ESP & Arduino: http://help.blynk.cc/hardware-and-libraries/arduino/esp8266-with-at-firmware