Use of Wild Cards to search channels
David Korn
on 14 Jun 2022
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on 14 Jun 2022
We operate roughly 600 data loggers on Think Speak where there are roughly 150 gateways and each gateway communicates with a node. Our channels are labeled node# - gateway number and each number is 16 diigits. We have not found a wildcard search function so must have each number exactly right or we cannot find our channel. In some cases we wish to query a gateway and see which nodes are successfully communicating with it.
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The issue is that we don't know if a channel exists until we search for it. For example if we have Gateway 1000032 and it might be connected to nodes 3333, 4444, 5555, or 6666, we would like to search xxx-10000032 and see what we have. As it is now we have to individually search 3333-1000032, 4444-1000032, 5555-1000032, etc.
If a node is miss-numbered it is nearly impossible for us to find the channel.
If we could search *-1000032, we could easily check our system and find issues where they exist.
Thanks
Is it possible to use the tags feature to help with searching? You could tag a channel with the gateway that is related to it or whatever other important detail you want users to know. You can use multiple tags for the channel.
I am taling about a person visually looking at channels. In the interface there is a search function to look for channels. In our case we have gateways and nodes building channels and with no wild card the search function doesn't do much for us.
Where is the search generated? Is it when a device is sending data and wants to find its appropriate channel to write to, or is this for the gateway sorting traffic? (or something else)
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