lower the data rate of a ThingSpeak channel
Hello, in the free usage of ThingSpeak, minimum data rate is 15 s. I have received a message that I will run messages in a month, and I would like to reduce the data rate, but I cannot find information of neither which is the current data rate that it's established in my channels, nor how might I modify it. I would like to reduce the rate at which I send data, as I actually do not need this rate to be high, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I am afraid I know little of how to "program" thingspeak, for creating my channels I followed the tutorials on "getting started with Thingspeak", and it worked quite well, but I have no idea which is the data rate that is being used or how to modify it. I will be really greatful if somebody may help me to learn how to do this.
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Do you have any devices that are ending data to ThingSpeak? If not, the things consuming messages will be controlled by the React or TimeControl apps. Sign in to ThingSpeak and select the apps menu, then React or TimeControl. Look at these and see how often they are running. You can reduce the rate or stop them entirely if you are not using them. You can also look at the MATLAB code that is triggered by the apps. Sometimes the code can consume extra messages by writing to your channels multiple times. You could remove writes to channels or stop the trigger as described above. This will reduce your message use. Finally, you could buy a paid license if you wanted more messages. The free license message allotment will renew annually automatically.
