Unable to get bridge widget working

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I’ve been trying to use the bridge widget between two devices without much luck. I’ve reviewed all the community posts and the documentation on using a bridge. Setup is pretty simple. Sender is a particle photon and the receiver is a adafruit huzzah.

Both have a terminal widget and I can see in the app that the loops are running.

I’ve had no luck getting any communication from the sender to yield a result on the receiver. I’ve tried using digital, analog, and virtual.

In the app I am able to add a button connected to the receiver digital pin 0 and make the led flash. This also lets me know that pin 0 works from the app and should yield a result if called via a bridge.

Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks!

Code for particle photon (sender)

// #define BLYNK_DEBUG // Optional, this enables lots of prints
#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial
#include "blynk/blynk.h"
#include "SparkCorePolledTimer/SparkCorePolledTimer.h"

char auth[] = "provided";
WidgetTerminal terminal(V0);

// Bridge widget on virtual pin 1
WidgetBridge bridge1(V1);

SparkCorePolledTimer updateTimer(5000);  

void setup()
{
    Serial.begin(115200);
    
    Blynk.begin(auth);
    
    while (Blynk.connect()) {
    bridge1.setAuthToken("provided from adafruit huzzah");
    }
    
    updateTimer.SetCallback(OnTimer);
}

void loop()
{
    Blynk.run();
    updateTimer.Update();

}


void OnTimer(void) {  
    terminal.println(millis() / 1000);
    Serial.println(millis() / 1000);    
    terminal.flush();
    
    bridge1.digitalWrite(0, HIGH);
    delay(2000);
    bridge1.digitalWrite(0, LOW);
    delay(2000);  
    
    bridge1.virtualWrite(2, millis() / 1000);
    
}

Code for adafruit huzzah (receiver)

#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial    
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <BlynkSimpleEsp8266.h>
#include <SimpleTimer.h>

char auth[] = "provided";
WidgetTerminal terminal(V0);

SimpleTimer timer;


void sendUptime()
{
  terminal.println("- - huzzah - -");
  terminal.println(millis() / 1000);
  terminal.flush();
}

BLYNK_WRITE(V2) {

  terminal.println("- - photon - -");
  terminal.println(param.asStr());
  terminal.flush();
}

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);

  Blynk.begin(auth, "ssid", "code");

  timer.setInterval(5000L, sendUptime);
}

void loop()
{
  Blynk.run();
  timer.run(); // Initiates SimpleTimer
}

Here is what the app looks like. Unsure if the bridge widget is needed. You’ll notice that there is no - - photon- - output.

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2

Seems wrong. Should be :

while (Blynk.connect() == false) {
     // Wait until connected
}
bridge1.setAuthToken("provided from adafruit huzzah");

Also

Seems very wrong… You already have timer for that.

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Thank you Dmitriy, the suggestions you made solved my problem and things are working great.

One outstanding question is the purpose of the bridge widget in the app. I could be wrong, but I think things work with or without the widget. Can you confirm if the bridge widget is needed, and if so does it go on one, or all of the bridge device app pages?

Awesome product BTW!

4

It is not needed at them moment (may be changed in future, so to avoid problem it better to have it). The story was very simple. Nobody used bridge, so we added it to App. so users could see it and start using it =).