Recensioni su Blynk

My usage of Blynk

Commenti: My overall experience with Blynk is it was the best platform for Internet of Things supporters.We can connect with various Hardware devices and can control our projects.

Aspetti positivi:

1.It is very user friendly to create and control our projects.2.It is a remote access,so we can control the projects from anywhere.

Aspetti negativi:

1.The main drawback was for some additional or advanced features we have to purchase the app.2.It also providing only less offline functionalities during not connected to an internet network.

Nice app for IoT

Commenti: Instead of buying expensive devices, this app allows you to build IoT devices using simple electronical parts. That's great.

Aspetti positivi:

It has a big community where you can share you coding issues and receive answers. Also, it's very flexible...you can use a lot of Arduino boards and play with different projects.

Aspetti negativi:

Monthly subscriptions. Initially, you could buy some points and with those points get permanent elements (buttons, graphs). Now, you need to have this subscription.

very good for IoT application

Commenti: It is free to use and very productive and easy to use.

Aspetti positivi:

It is simple to use and very easy to understand the concept. I personally used it and it's easy to use with Arduinand WiFi module

Aspetti negativi:

I don't know anything about disliking about the software. It is very easy to apply and use the concept.

Feel Safe with Blynk

Commenti: Absolutely love it now we have everything running correctly.

Aspetti positivi:

The picture is so clear. Being able to get great views. Love being able to turn my phone on and see everything.

Aspetti negativi:

Was a little hard understanding how to connect to my phone.Instructions was not user friendly. It took someone with more media experience to help set it up.

Blynk my first step to iot

Aspetti positivi:

Blynk is verry smooth going app. Help in my alot of projects during my college days.

Aspetti negativi:

Limited free trial which has to be improve.

blynk

Commenti: I'm very satisfied in order to make Iot Devices . with the help of these app i have a made automatic smart home in my house.

Aspetti positivi:

when I want to make IoT Device, these help me easily by only dragging and dropping the button in scratch.

Aspetti negativi:

how to use for integration for first time its confusing how to access the bylnk app.

Good for beginner development and intermediate projects!

Aspetti positivi:

First of all, it is very common and simple to use. A platform with so many sources for information that almost every IoT lover is starting out in some way or another.The library and documentation they have prepared for additional products and especially for development kits such as ESP and Arduino, which are used extensively for maker cutting, are very good.I think they are also good at things like drag and drop, mobile app, flexibility in pricing.

Aspetti negativi:

In my opinion, developer resources can be increased and more professional support can be offered for advanced and upper-intermediate projects.Higher and customizable layers can be added for the drag and drop portion.

The best service to built IoT applications

Commenti: For me this software is the best service to built IoT applications. It really makes my day.

Aspetti positivi:

This software is so easy to use and I really like the most. Developer also provide a training for user that was so amazing.

Aspetti negativi:

Some key features is missing for IOS user. It is not developer's fault maybe Apple has some restrictions.

One stop download and control software

Aspetti positivi:

The user interface and function is specific and simple. Connect your robot using the app with an easy click and check the working!

Aspetti negativi:

Sometimes the app crashes or connectivity looses which should get fixed.

Good product, Great support

Aspetti positivi:

Blynk is not rocket science. When a product is complex but built well enough to be accessible to anyone, that's very plausible. It was the simplest compared with its alternatives.

Aspetti negativi:

I didn't come across anything that their support didn't address. So nothing to add here.

Me reviewing the Blynk app

Aspetti positivi:

I appreciate the simplicity of the application in question, it provides a system that makes it possible to create any project for home automation. In addition, the application has a very affordable price. I recommend!!!

Aspetti negativi:

I don't know anything about not liking the software. It's very easy to apply and use the concept. It just needs more language options.

Poweful Product for a Small Company

Commenti: Using Blynk you can automate, schedule, control and monitor both analog and digital devices across the world either from a web interface (Blynk cloud server) or from your local server. With Blynk your IoT projects and solutions are only limited by your imagination.You will get to love the product! For a small team you get a bloody amazing product! Thanks to them, I can now put out projects and solutions that not only look great but also work great making me look great. Now that works for me!

Aspetti positivi:

Blynk can either be run on a standalone Server or on the Blynk Web server. The product works great!! Versatile, intuitive, creative - those are just some of the many great features of the product. For a small team of developers, running on a small budget, you get an amazing product. With Blynk and Arduino, knowing nothing about electronics, you can create the most amazing projects thanks to the creative minds of the Blynk Team. Their customer support is excellent, but what is even more amazing is the international Blynk support from Blynk users. What an amazing experience!! Blynk offers the common folk the chance to learn about electronics and become creative and to participate in world previously destined for those with an electronic / electrical background and/or education. I do not use any other product except for Blynk - no need to bother looking for anything else because it is all there.

Aspetti negativi:

* Pricing is a little high in my opinion, especially in countries where the dollar exchange rate is poor ! Many IoT users will consider pricing over product. * Customizing controls could be more versatile. * A Web interface where code could be generated for the use of controls to help noobs (like me) not suffer from figuring out the code - very much like http://easycoding.tn/tuniot/demos/code/. * MySQL database interaction would be a great advantage instead the default PostGreSQL database.

Blynk Rocks

Commenti: I was looking for a quick and simple way to create APPs and tie them into my IoT devices for around the home. There are lots of solutions that can do the basics - push a button and unlock a door - or send me the temperature. However none of them made a classy looking and fairly complex interface possible without a tremendous amount of time, effort and coding.
Blynk is simple - get an account - create a project (gives you the authorization code) and add Widgets (big list which I am still playing with trying them all) - then add the library to your IDE (I like Visual Studios with vMicro). Add the basic connectivity activities (lots of examples) - and add the various Widget interfaces to your program. And you are done. AND IT WORKS. I recently added my own Local Server on a Raspberry Pi3B - took a bit of playing to get the SSL stuff ironed out - but it is running like a champ. I am slowly migrating my personal devices over to it.
Havent played with the enhancements I can do with my own server (like OTA pgming and faster updates) - but things work and do it reliably

Aspetti positivi:

It is a easy to use system to connect IoT devices to an APP for status and control. It has been incredibly reliable. For development or personal use - it is practically free - and if you have a local server it is totally free The community is great and the Blynk people are FAST to respond and help.

Aspetti negativi:

This is actually a challenging question. Anything I thought was a negative has turned out to be my lack of understanding - or a limit of iOS :-) Are there some features I would like - sure. And I can add them to the "things to add" pool that Blynk has - and if enough of us request them - I am certain they will show up.

Great product for rapidly deploying IoT apps

Commenti: My employer contracted with Blynk to build some custom functionality for monitoring environmental parameters. We had a great experience, they designed several new UI elements to solve our needs, they've always been extremely easy to deal with and responsive to my questions. I would recommend them to anyone looking to solve a unique problem with IoT!

Aspetti positivi:

I've used Blynk for both personal and business use. I've used it for several small IoT projects in my house (monitoring pets, lights, temp, etc), and my employer also contracted with Blynk to perform some custom functions for an application we needed. They excel at customer service and I would recommend them for either small or large projects.

Aspetti negativi:

There are some features I'd like them to include, like a web dashboard. That said, this isn't really a criticism of their current offering, it's more of a feature request. I have no negatives to comment on the features they do offer, it has worked surprisingly well for me in many different applications.

Create proof-of-concept Apps in a Blynk

Commenti: From my first time using Blynk, I went straight to work building my App for use with an Arduino and guess what...? It worked the first time. Hardware/software projects are difficult to begin with. Blynk has alleviated a lot of this for the initial attempt of a new project.

Aspetti positivi:

Blynk is the first "App builder" I've used which has made it extremely quick & effortlessly to build an App for connecting to an Arduino or Particle IoT Board. Part of the challenge of designing for The Internet of Things, is proving to a client that what they're looking for is possible. Blynk makes is easy to create a proof-of-concept which the client can easily try out.

Aspetti negativi:

There are some limitations to Blynk (as with other App Builder solutions), and that's where the native SDK's come in for building real, enterprise Apps. Though this is a drawback, the usefulness far outweighs the cons.

Blynk with ESP8266 helps you to create good IOT projects

Commenti: I had one ESP8266 controlling a relay that in turns controlled my cable TV receptor that is located high in my bedroom and had an stand-by light that was annoying on the darkness. So I use this device with relay to turn on and off the mains power of this cable receptor and I controlled it using the Blynk app in my mobile. I used it for years without any issue.

Aspetti positivi:

Blynk is a great app that you can control IOT (Internet of Things Devices) like ESP8266 or Arduino development boards. You can create nice looking interface to monitor sensors like temperature and humidity sensors and also see surveillance camera. It also offers widgets that you can add in your mobile android main screen for instance and in this way you can see data and control devices in one click. What I like most is the facility to create nice looking interface to control devices like ESP8266.

Aspetti negativi:

Blynk is not totally free software, you have limited number of internal cash (credit) that you can virtually spend buying some components to use in the interface that you create. But this credit is generally not enough for medium, large projects, so then you need to spend real money buying new credits to increase your projects.

Particle and ESP Projects made easy!

Commenti: I use several dashboards for several projects around the house, including my home security system and sump pump monitor. The app is very pleasing to the eye, my projects look very professional, and works flawlessly. The community support is very active, and company stakeholders are extremely active on their forums. They are generous with the amount of product that they let you use for free, more than enough to try it out and create truly useful projects, but if you want to do more, the cost to add additional widgets is surprisingly cheap. I threw them $20 a long time ago and still have most of that credit available.

Aspetti positivi:

Network connected microcontrollers are meaningless without a way to interact with them. Blynk makes the interface/app end of things EASY.

Aspetti negativi:

None. The Blynk app works well on all devices I've tried, setting up a project is easy, coding the controller is easy, and things just work!

Amazing Software For Beginners and Pros

Commenti: From using Blynk, I have realized that I don't need to rely on companies to sell me IoT devices to have a smart home. Instead, I can make every single device myself and have it all localized to the Blynk app.

Aspetti positivi:

With Blynk, it is extremely easy to get WiFi and bluetooth enabled development boards like the ESP-32 functioning at the same level as store-bought home automation smart devices. It is easy to make a customize able set of widgets that allow control through a smart phone, which saves makers from being forced to buy commercial IoT devices when you can build a much more customizable version for cheaper.

Aspetti negativi:

Some of the widgets are locked to a specific size ad cannot be resized. I would like to see more current features like Google Assistant or Siri integration.

Great for Hobyists

Commenti: I am using it for hobyist projects. It has been smooth and easy to use.

Aspetti positivi:

This product was free for me to use and I continue to use it for free. They added features which allow me to connect to my device even when I'm not on the same network.

Aspetti negativi:

It isn't as flexible as I would like for customizing my design. However, it was free so I can't complain when I don't get all the features I would want if I designed from scratch.

Amazing software for projects of every size

Commenti: My experience with Blynk has been wonderful. I backed them it when it was a Kickstarter campaign and the money spent has been definitely worth it.

Aspetti positivi:

Blynk is extremely easy to set up for a simple project. If you want to connect a microcontroller to your smartphone, you just need to add a couple of lines of code. Besides, the number of widgets that Blynk has is impressive. There is a widget for every need.

Aspetti negativi:

I backed Blynk when it was a Kickstarter campaign. Whenever I don't use the application for a couple of months, my account is deleted. This has happened three times. However, the customer service brings my account back immediately when I email them.

The Blynk IoT Software platform

Commenti: I found the creation of mobile applications on Blynk to be straight forward and really easy to setup. What Blynk lacks in app skin/background customisability it more than makes up for in functionality. I would definitely use this app for future IoT projects

Aspetti positivi:

I like the way Blynk has simplified and speeded up the process of creating functional mobile applications through the use of their drag and drop building style. I was able to create multiple fully functional apps using their prebuilt widgets, requiring very little programming (on the hardware side only), in a matter of 20 minutes on average. I was able to easily pair these apps with projects i created using the Arduino uno and Particle Photon microcontroller platforms which is one of the many devices supported by the Blynk platform. I found the online reference documentation made avaiable by Blynk to be very helpful. However there were a few instances where i required clearity or had some difficulty figuring out how to use certain widgets in more complex use-cases, such as the use of a time stamping feature using the RTC widget, and found their online community to be friendly and helpful.

Aspetti negativi:

Although Blynk's widgets are customizable in terms of size and colour, but the widget icons cannot be changed. Also the application background is not customizable aside from selecting it to be either white or black. I also really dislike the fact that, although Blynk supports the use of a bluetooth communication between the app you create and your project, it does not allow you to access the app with your mobile device if your mobile device does not have an internet connection.

Perfect fit for my personal tinkering

Aspetti positivi:

I love to experiment with IoT and keep adding sensor and actions all over my world. Blynk is the glue that makes it all work together. And it does it in a logical manner that really fits my thinking. I use the iOS and android GUI builders. And I use the bridge widget to let my Objects communicate directly. It all works flawlessly! I am also thinking about using a local server at some point as even that seems so easy.

Aspetti negativi:

The GUI is extremely easy to use but could benefit from a little more optional visual customization. That way my wife would love it even more.

Very very very fast IoT platform

Aspetti positivi:

It's so extremely fast to create a nice mobile app from Arduino H/W data. It can not be easier to develop IoT solutions including great looking user interface. The concept of buying electrical energy for more sophisticated apps has very high value for money. For a small number of bucks you get enough "energy" to build great apps. The tutorial videos are also extremely helpful and fun to watch. It's also great that a local server can be setup and that a Docker image is available as well.

Aspetti negativi:

The documentation for the local server could be a bit better.

Amazing for quick and easy IoT Implementations

Commenti: Great! I use it both for quick any easy prototyping, as well as for my final products for myself.

Aspetti positivi:

The obvious part is, that it is astonishingly easy to connect the app with a new device and set up a new user interface. But what really surprised me is how easy it is to integrate your own code into the Blynk firmware. Furthermore the reaction time of the interactions is amazingly quick.

Aspetti negativi:

Mostly minor things that are fixable with workarounds: - the way how strictly the interfaced for different devices are separated onto different screens. - that always an Internet Connection is required to communicate with the devices (I haven't tried installing a local Blynk server, but I think that would fix it.)

Love Blynk for all my IoT tinkering

Commenti: Been using blynk for years. Great support on the IoT platforms I use, so far!

Aspetti positivi:

-Easy to build an interface -Easy to make something functional and no thinking about how am I going to get this to work remotely! -great libs for most platforms

Aspetti negativi:

-interface design is super rigid. -has support now for larger screens, but arranging widgets is hard if you have a full screen of stuff -no iPad / tablet suppport -must have client installed - no web interface to at least share a console with a family member/colleague for a specific install