Blynk Homescreen Buttons

About Blynk Homescreen Buttons Android App

You have successfully created a Blynk project and would like to use the buttons from your home screen directly?
If you need to control more than one button, this will be your solution, it gives you a two and a four button home screen widget with status feedback.

A great solution for a wireless blinds control, garage door opener, etc.

***Only works with Blynk-Cloud for the moment, update which will support local servers will follow soon!***

Installation instructions:
-Prior to installing our app, open your Blynk project and copy the authorization token to the clipboard.

-Then install and open our app, chose if you need one or two up/down switches and select the digital or virtual pins you'd like to control.

-Check Box "Connected on/off commands" lets you choose between two working orders for a Switch (group of two buttons, vertically aligned):
--Checked: If, for example, the Up button is active, a press of the Down button deactivates the Up button, you need to press Down again to activate the down command. This function is best if you're controlling blinds or similar things.
--Un-Checked: this lets all buttons work independently

-Insert the authorization token provided by our Blynk project.

-Leave the default Blynk-Server path as local servers are not yet supported

-Status listener timeout: sets the time in seconds the widget will listen to possible status changes from the server after a click. To avoid battery drain keep it as low as possible.

-Next install the "2 BlynkHomeButton" or "4 BlynkHomeButton" Widget and you're ready to go!

Functionality:
Since long click on a widget is reserved for drag and drop, the BlynkHomescreenButtons works like a switch:
-one click turns it on
-the next click turns it off.
-additionally, a click onto the opposite button will also turn the initially clicked button off

The green status indicator shows the actual feedback coming from the Blynk server.

Depending on your network connectivity there might be a small lag, same as when you're using the Blynk app.

Feel free to suggest additional button/status indicator ideas for your Blynk project!

In case the app doesn't work for you, please send an email describing your problem to [email protected], we would like to solve the problem and are glad to help.

Disclaimer: this application is not an official Blynk application, it only uses their official API's.