Blinkit v2.5 | Steemmakers Upvote bot Visualizer
Steemmakers is fast growing community of makers. Users share there maker post with Steemmakers accordingly to the guidelines and users can receive a approval,a mention on the Steemmakers website and a upvote from the Steemmakers bot and a trail vote from Utopian.
Blinkit is all about reusing widely available devices to give them a Steem Purpose. Blinkit stimulates making modifications to the devices, examples are case mods and electronic mods. (1) (2)
Because the ideology of Steemmakers is to stimulate quality maker content on the Steem blockchain, it also fits the ideology of Blinkit, and because i became more active for the development around the Steemmakers project and know about the upcoming improvements such as a new Upvote Bot, a first combination of Blinkit and Steemmakers is now realized.
Steemmakers also likes Blinkit, and is also excited to see what the users will make and contribute to Blinkit with Steemmakers.
Do you expect a Upvote for your approves Steemmakers post? With the newly added Steemmakers Upvote Bot Visualizer, Blinkit can now also notify you about the Steemmakers bot activity with light and or sound.
Users are invited and stimulated with this first Steemmakers feature to make and contribute more quality maker content to Steemmakers, and the users could make and think of DIY projects around the supported Blinkit devices.
Each supported device in Blinkit can now be used to Visualize the Steemmakers Upvotes!
What is Blinkit?
Blinkit is a notification software that can be used to give regular widely available devices a Steem purpose.
Supported devices:
- USB Sticks (with read/write status light)
- Philips hue lamps
- Sonoff smart Wifi switches
- Arduino (tested with Arduino Uno r3)
- Webcams (status LED and picture mode)
- Logitech keyboards, mouse, headsets (newly added)
Blinkit can look for new Steem account Upvotes, Followers, for a user and it can notify on new Posts made by a user. And with this latest version it is now also possible to blink on Steemmakers upvotes.
More devices and actions for Steemmakers and other Steem activities will be added in the near future.
Blinkit is free and open source, and can be downloaded from the Blinkit Github page
https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit
Blinkit new features:
- In each device Window there is a Steemmakers button added to start the Visualizer
- When clicking on the Steemmaker button in a device window, it will automaticly preload that device in the dropdown menu "Device to blink".
- Use one of the supported devices to Blink and Visualize Steemmaker Upvotes.
Each Blinkit Device Windows now has a Steemmakers Button
The device windows, (Arduino, Sonoff, Philips Hue, USB sticks, Webcam and Logitech), now all have the Button with the Steemmakers icon displayed in the bottom left corner to start the Steemmakers Upvote Bot - Visualizer.
Blinkit - Steemmakers Upvote Bot Visualizer
The Steemmakers Upvote bot Visualizer window, where the default device to blink is automatically selected, and the Visualizer can be started, to Visualize the Steemmakers upvotes with light!
Bat script that looks for new upvotes
Part of the bat script code that get started and blinks the selected device.
Steemmakers Upvote bot - Visualizer
The following files have been updated/added:
- blinkit.exe
- visualizersteemmakers.bat
- downloadsteemmakersvotes.txt and downloadsteemmakersvotes2.txt
- steemmakersdevice.txt
The Blinkt repository is updated
The Blinkit source files repository is updated
Testing and improvements
If you have one of the supported device, and want to help out with testing Blinkit, it would be much appreciated.
Improvements, that will be worked on for the Steemmakers Visualizer: Display the latest aproved makes.
Have you found a bug?
You could make a Utopian contribution and add an issue post to the project on Github. or get in touch on Discord and report the issues.
Do you want to make other devices compatible and make Blinkit better?
Please get me in contact on Discord for more details.
Technical Support
Technical support is available, if you may encounter a problem, or if you want to know if your device is supported or will be supported in the near future.
How to contribute?
Do you have a question, or suggestion for Blinkit?
Do you want to make other devices compatible and make Blinkit better?
Feel free to contact me on Discord, don't hesitate and get in touch! or leave a comment.
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Hi thanks for reviewing, and suggesting a extra functionality for Blinkit, and for helping to make Blinkit better.
Yes have thought of IFTTT, and would like to look into it again to see how and ifttt it suits the Blinkit project, i had some experience with it around a year ago and that moment they had some limitations and maybe even required a payed account but not sure about that.
Reorganize the files, the Wiring Diagrams for Arduino or ?
(Because all other pictures are in the default vb.net resources folder.)
The backend is Windows Batch files, and where possible things get solved in the backend with Batch commands, but for example for the notification sound it was needed to use a bit of VBS to not need to open a (default) media player, but to just let the sound play in the background. to not annoy the user with a media player window.
Where possible there will be one technology used, Front end vb.net and the backend Windows batch scripts, and to trigger the devices the optimal and workable solution is tried and used depending on the device and the results while testing.
In the future maybe would want to renew the back-end to directly connect to the blockchain instead of the use of web Api's and that would most probably require also to use a new technology. so for this reason it is important to split them up.
Most of the (backend) bat files can run independently and a extra benefit is that they are easy to edit by the users that would want to optimize or customize the backend. the code is commented and the user just need a text editor to get started (no need to download, install Visual Studio)
If any code comments would need additional information, please let me know what parts made you score it low because my intentions are to have every code that's added be commented in detail.
The decision to split the front and backend also makes it more modular to work on front or backend and they become "independent" of each other, It's a decision to keep them separate, The score you gave seems to be based on the idea that all ideally should be in the same coding langues.
VB.net can interact with most devices that Windows can interact with, on the other hand VB.net and connecting directly to the Blockchain is not the most documented / workable solution, and having a separated backend seems to be a good idea, also to later be able to use a more documented and proven way to connect to the Steem Blockchain.
Suggestions are very welcome, and is how things get improved, let me know your thoughts
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