HTTP Rest API for Logging Events

[PeteKnight]

@judas

MQTT implementation?

Although it has been ta;lked-about in the past, I’m not sure if there will ever be a useable MQTT implementation for Blynk.
The simplest solution is to use Node-Red and the Blynk plug-in (contrib) for Node-Red.

There’s a guide here to how to to log events/notifications with Node-Red using the HTTP(S) API

My home automation projects built with MQTT and Node Red

Update January 2022 Okay, it’s been almost 3 years since my last post in this topic, and things have changed quite a bit – so it’s time for an update…. New Blynk IoT Obviously, the main thing that’s changed since my last update is the launch of the new Blynk IoT system (AKA Blynk 2.0). This required some changes to the Node-Red contrib for Blynk, so a new contrib called node-red-contrib-blynk-iot has been launched. The current version of this contrib is 0.2.0 and the following warning… [image…

This approach should now be redundant though, as release 1.0.0 of node-red-contrib-blynk-iot now includes a Log Event node. I’ve been away since this was released so I’ve not had chance to test it, but I’m back home now so hopefully I’ll get the chance to do some testing soon.

Pete.