Turning a light in my bedroom on and off using Blynk

[Rebekah]

I want to turn on and off my bedroom light on and off and I don’t have a clue where to start or how to do it. I have access to ESP8266 Thing and and arduino. If you can help me please reply.

[Dmitriy]

Hello. You can start from docs - http://docs.blynk.cc/#hardware-set-ups-esp8266-standalone

[farazappy]

@Rebekah You have to use a Relay for this purpose.

Use Blynk to turn a relay switch on/off which will turn your light on/off (Assuming yout light bulb uses AC).

Read about relay, how to use it with Arduino/ESP8266 and then integrate using Blynk app.

Should not be very hard!

Good Luck!

[G2Dolphin]

I’m doing the same project, you can read this topic as well.

[Rebekah]

I’ll try these things thanks

[nolmath]

Some words of advise:

1. if you’re trying to turn on a light that is plugged into an outlet: buy a cheap extension cord and use that with the relay instead of the cord for the light.

2. If you’re trying to turn on a light that is hooked up directly to a light switch, be very careful with the relay. Ive bought some where the soldered tips on the bottom of the relay were live . And obviously turn off all the power to the room when connecting the light to the relay

[dylan1024]

Light a button instead of an LED

Hi everyone my current project uses a button in push mode to toggle the state of a pin(turn my lights on and off), i then have an LED in the app recieving data and displaying the state of the lights. is it possible to have the button light up instead of needing a separate LED… could i Blynk.virtualWrite to the same virtual pin that is assigned to the button? here is my code so far: #include <ESP8266WiFi.h> #include <BlynkSimpleEsp8266.h> #include <EEPROM.h> int addr = 0; int state = 0; char…

Thats my solution so far. If you toggle the light switch in the room the lights change state or you use the app.