Blynk can communicate with the ESP8266 and makes the project relatively simple. ESP8266 and Arduino IDE The ESP8266 Blynk code is straightforward.

Blynk is a platform that has iOS and Android apps that can be designed in minutes to control Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and similar microboards over the internet.

Programming the Blynk firmware into the ESP8266 Communicating with the Blynk user interface from your custom code Neither of these are especially hard, as I’ll show you next time.