Subscribe to a Channel Field Feed

Subscribe to channel updates from specific field of channel with MQTT

ThingSpeak™ MQTT supports only QoS 0.

Syntax

channels/<channelID>/subscribe/fields/field<fieldnumber>

channels/<channelID>/subscribe/fields/+

Description

channels/<channelID>/subscribe/fields/field<fieldnumber> subscribes to updates from a single field of a channel feed. Replace <channelID> with the channel ID and <fieldnumber> with the target field number.

channels/<channelID>/subscribe/fields/+ subscribes to updates to all fields of a channel feed from the specified channel.

Input Arguments

<channelID> — channel ID for the subscription target

integer

Channel ID for the subscription target, specified as a positive integer.

<fieldnumber> — field number of the subscription target

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

Field number of the subscription target, specified as a positive integer.

Limitations

• Each ThingSpeak license type allows a different number of MQTT subscriptions and has different restrictions on the number of messages delivered. For more information, see How to Buy and Frequently Asked Questions.

• MQTT subscriptions do not report updates to the channel from Bulk Write JSON Data or Bulk Write CSV Data.

• ThingSpeak MQTT honors all MQTT disconnect and unsubscribe messages. If you disconnect from the MQTT server, you are automatically unsubscribed from channel updates.

Examples

Configure MQTT X to subscribe to updates of field1 from your channel 33301 using mqtt-v2.thingspeak.com and port 1883.

In the New Connection dialog, use the following connection settings, along with client ID, username, and password derived when the MQTT device was created in ThingSpeak:

Name: MyChanName
Client ID: ENTER_MQTT_DEVICE_CLIENT_ID
Host: mqtt://    mqtt-v2.thingspeak.com
Port: 1883
Username: ENTER_MQTT_DEVICE_USERNAME
Password: ENTER_MQTT_DEVICE_PASSWORD

In the New Subscription dialog, use the subscribe topic syntax and settings:

Topic: channels/33301/subscribe/fields/field1
QoS: 0

Now update the field with a publish, and observe the message received in the client from the subscription.