Installing Arduino Board Package
- Open Arduino IDE in your laptop or PC
- Go to File and then preferences. Add below URL into Additional Board Manager URLs field. http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
- Go to tools and then boards and then click on board manager and search ESP8266 in search bar and click on install.
- Wait for installation to finish
- Now after restarting the Arduino IDE , go to Tools->Boards and select Node MCU board , mine was version 1.0
This blynk app has set of library files which have to be included in the Arduino IDE environment before the project is executed
1. Follow the link to install libraries
http://www.blynk.cc/getting-started/
2. Once the Zip file is downloaded ,extract it and individually copy all the folder to your libraries folder of your arduino
3. Once done just open Arduino IDE and go to Sketch-> Include libraries and you would see blynk in the menu
4. If you see that then libraries have been included successfully
*Now it is time to include the board configuration in the Arduino IDE