New! Alpha version of the blynk-library for Python!

Well that was a lot smoother :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks.

pi@raspberrypi3:~ $ pip install blynk-library-python
Collecting blynk-library-python
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/37/01/91c464c3f9a36ad96e397c9652a339fbde71a3de99eabc22e7de6b2f3923/blynk-library-python-0.2.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: blynk-library-python
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for blynk-library-python ... done
  Stored in directory: /home/pi/.cache/pip/wheels/fc/d4/df/7128f5d8bf6e86fba6107a971acb3f695fbde461a74dc75205
Successfully built blynk-library-python
Installing collected packages: blynk-library-python
Successfully installed blynk-library-python-0.2.0

Now back to the Local Server issue… but I think an answer was in some other topic already… so back to reading :slight_smile:

Found a reference here - how to change to Blynk local server ¡ Issue #18 ¡ vshymanskyy/blynk-library-python ¡ GitHub

But I want to be able to pick and chose the server option in my sketch :thinking: Like this:

# Initialize Blynk
blynk = BlynkLib.Blynk(BLYNK_AUTH, '10.10.3.13', 8080)
pi@raspberrypi3:~ $ python PythonTest.py

    ___  __          __
   / _ )/ /_ _____  / /__
  / _  / / // / _ \/  '_/
 /____/_/\_, /_//_/_/\_\
        /___/ for Python v0.2.0 (Linux)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PythonTest.py", line 17, in <module>
    blynk = BlynkLib.Blynk(BLYNK_AUTH, '10.10.3.13', 8080)
TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (4 given)
pi@raspberrypi3:~ $ 

OK, I figured that out… mostly… the log=print causes compiling error with Python 2.7, so more investigation required.

blynk = BlynkLib.Blynk(BLYNK_AUTH,
                       server='10.10.3.13',    # set server address
                       port=8080,              # set server port
                       heartbeat=30,           # set heartbeat to 30 secs
                       #log=print              # use print function for debug logging
                       )

In fact, it seems lots of rethinking is required as there is no longer tasks? and needing the while true: for blynk.run() and a few other issues with my existing sketches.

Time to relearn Blynk Python by digging into the new examples :smiley: Gave it a star on github (not sure why I hadn’t before)

You can’t use print directly, since it is an intrinsic and not a function. I had to do this:

def myprint(*argv):
    for arg in argv:
        print (arg),
    print

Then you can say:

blynk = BlynkLib.Blynk(BLYNK_AUTH,
                       server='10.10.3.13',    # set server address
                       port=8080,              # set server port
                       heartbeat=30,           # set heartbeat to 30 secs
                       log=myprint             # use myprint function for debug logging
                       )

That’s the reason for

from __future__ import print_function

in this example: https://github.com/vshymanskyy/blynk-library-python/blob/master/examples/other_functions.py

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@vshymanskyy
Hi,
why isn’t the BlynkTimer.py file installed with the lib? I had to copy/paste the code to make the timers work.

BTW, keep up with the great job you’re doing.

It’s on the master branch, which is not released yet

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