Photon and Virtual IO

Hardware and Blynk Libraries
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It appears that on my Photon that BLYNK_READ() isn’t being called, even though it’s tied to a LED virtual pin. Also, calling virtualWrite() in the main loop() seems to lead to connection problems (photon device offline). Using a delay(250) seems to alleviate the problem. Has anyone else experienced these issues on the Photon?

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Please read documentation on how to perform basic Blynk operations:
http://docs.blynk.cc/#blynk-main-operations

Using virtualWrite() in the void loop - causes FLOOD error. Please use timers

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Thanks Pavel. Is there a Photon timer library similar to SimpleTimer for the Arduino or one that you recommend? I know, I should probably search the Blynk community libraries but I thought I’d ask first! :smile:

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There are a couple of them. I’m using a simplest one: Polled timer or smth like that( I’m not near laptop now)

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Thanks Pavel, it’s the SPARKCOREPOLLEDTIMER library.

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can you please explain how to use the SPARKCOREPOLLEDTIMER.

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You should check their example. It’s really very simple.

This is their github, but you should go to Particle IDE and include this library and see the example sketch