Thank you for taking the time to reply, @pzygmunt.
pzygmunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:35 am
Supla growing very dynamically.
Good to hear. Congratulations!
We have small resources and there is nobody who knows both projects well enough to compare them.
In addition, you are the first person to ask about it.
I'd never heard of supla until your forum member joined the Blynk forum. I searched the Blynk forum and didn't find a single reference to supla. I searched the supla forums and found very few references to Blynk.
The two seem
very similar.
Blynk has "free" iOS and Android apps (with in-app purchases) for building / configuring the UI. This configuration is referred to as a "project" You can create an app "preview" of a project, however, you can't export or share the app. Blynk will publish your project to Google Play and the App Store with subscription plans starting at $249 USD / month,
https://blynk.io/pricing
Can you help me understand the supla business model? How do you make money?
Blynk facilitates communication between the app and hardware (and vice versa) via a cloud or local / private server. This includes monitoring and controlling device analog, digital and "virtual" pins. Virtual pins are simply bi-directional, general-purpose communication channels. The supla library includes firmware to interface with popular device drivers. This would seem to be one
difference between supla and Blynk. Over half a million users have interfaced Blynk with just about every device driver imaginable, however, the interface firmware is not maintained by Blynk as part of the GitHub library. Is my understanding of this difference correct?
Of course, Blynk provides dozens of widgets, dynamic device discovery / auth token provisioning, OTA firmware updates, user account management, ... Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to enumerate all of the features here. I'm more interested in architectural differences and differences in the overall approach / philosophy. Are you aware of any such differences?