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Thingspeak channel shows a "watch" - "un-watch" selection box. What does this do?
Thanks
https://github.com/opiedopy/ThingSpeak-with-thermistor-on-Arduino-R4-w-matrix-LED---using-Raspberry-Pi-5/tree/main
This Arduino ino sketch utilizes the new Arduino R4 with LED matrix. I use a thermistor to measure temperature and send it to the led MAtrix for local display and also to ThingSpeak for cloud display at public
  • Channel ID: 2300884
Note: I used Christopher's suggestion (elsewhere) to start with the Arduino R4 wifi example in the example folder of the Arduino IDE. That made all the difference in the world! Plus, I had serious issues with "write" data until I watched this YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK4Lp1Ko0l8
Shore
Shore
Last activity on 30 Dec 2023

AI Chat: Thumbs Up/Down

This is not a question, it is my attempt at complying with the request for thumbs up/down voting. I vote thumbs up, for having AI.....
I am not sure if specific AI errors are to be reported. Other messages I just read from others here and the AI Chat itself clearly state that errors abound.
My AI request was: "Plot 300 points of field 2"
AI Chat gave me, in part:
data = thingSpeakRead(channelID, 'Fields', 2, 'NumPoints', 300, 'ReadKey', readAPIKey);
% Extract the field values
field1Values = data.Field1;
% Plot the data
plot(field1Values);
The AI code failed due to "Dot indexing is not supported for variables of this type"
So, I corrected the code thus to get the correct plot:
data = thingSpeakRead(channelID, 'Fields', 2, 'NumPoints', 300, 'ReadKey', readAPIKey);
% Extract the field values
%field1Values = data.Field1;
% Plot the data
plot(data);
I see great promise in AI Chat.
Opie
I wanted to say that I am thoroughly enjoying my ThingSpeak channels and I often discuss with friends and associates the technical and documentative aspects of the MathWorks/MatLab/ThingSpeak platform and all the possible benefits for engineers, researchers, scientists and students across the globe.
My pubic channel demonstrates to them how useful it is to see simple data in a visually intereresting way. I hope my efforts will bring ThingSpeak more subscribers in the new year.
If there are any questions, let me know. (I owe Christopher a story here about my Alaska system. Soon......)
https://thingspeak.com/channels/2016936 Alaska Boiler System
Opie
edited update, only one channel used publically now in 2025. I still owe CS a story...
Shore
Shore
Last activity on 16 Oct 2023

Halloween Analysis using Thingspeak

Halloween Analysis of Many Aspects of Halloween Headquarters and Effects on USA
(Note to Chistopher: I used a simple ESP8266 generating random numbers for fields 1 thru 7, (0 to 100, 4000, 127, 30, 45, 200,000, 50,000) and 0 to 1 for field 8. And a couple of real sensor inputs.
https://thingspeak.com/channels/2278931
Halloween Analysis
Shore
Shore
Last activity on 11 Oct 2023

Write to 8 fields from https

I wanted to write to my public channel 2278931 with 8 different values to 8 different gauge widgets.
Here is my link.
https://api.thingspeak.com/update.json?api_key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&field1=1&field2=2&field3=3&field4=4&field5=5&field6=6&field7=7&field8=8
You can change values and in the link to change gauge values. On edit I edited my write key to make it not work for others but it will work with your own key.

My learning is progressing well. I borrow heavily on examples given on this site. I need to know the correct commands for coding in Matlab analysis. For a simple example, what is the correct code symbol for multiplication? Yes, I know it is (a)*(b). But, is there a glossary of all such? For another example, I tried to generate a random number in Matlab analysis by writing: mu = 1; sigma = 5; rannum = Random (‘Normal’, mu, sigma)

But when I run this code I get the following error message: .....

“random” requires access to one of the following...

Sim Biology or

Statistics & Machine Learning Toolbox...

So, in summary, does my subscription allow such access and/or how do I learn the syntax Matlab requires for code operations?

Thanks.

In the Matlab analysis option on my Thingspeak channel I chose to experiment with the example in the title regarding humidity average. It works fine but only works once. How can I keep it updating every 5 minutes or so?

I am very happy with ThingSpeak. I have a prototype Pico W project that it working well.
I tried 6 other IOT platforms and ThingSpeak was the BEST!
https://thingspeak.com/channels/2022886
I wrote about my experience here:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=346793