New User Thingspeak data

Hi I am new to IoT and have just set up a Cricket module which is transmitting "temp" and Battery data to Thingspeak and is showing a number of entries but they are not displaying any values

[Alan Pedder]

I have it working by using GET (which seems counter intuitive) and adding fields and not using payload. But like yourself perhaps I followed the article in PE but after several attempts thier route just did not work for me.

Answer 1

[Malcolm Hood]

Hi I am having the same problem - have checked my setup numerous times with no sucess - cricket is sending data but appears not to be received

Answer 2

[Christopher Stapels]

Can either of you share your channel ID if they are public? Then we can have a look at the data you are sending and see what is happening.

[Michael Schu]

OK, I am new to Cricket too and also followed the PE June 2021 article instructions to a tee. Thingsspeak looks like it it getting data every minute but nothing shows on the charts.

I also entered the same information in the Payload entry for temp and battery for fields 1 and 2 as instructed in the PE article.

So I take it that this doesn't work and I need to try something else? I am not familiar with "Get."

Thank you for any information anyone can provide.

Answer 3

[Alan Pedder]

hi

This is my channel I just made public ID 1391895 Author stoicped.

its got a pretty useless moisture sensor attached with limited range.

hope this helps

[Christopher Stapels]

That looks great, there are plenty of values in the channel. The original post said they could see no data, so I assume that problem is fixed.

[Alan Pedder]

this is what happens if you follow the instructions to the letter in the Practical Electronics feature on Cricket a couple of months back. i.e. using Post and Payload. I only gt it to interpret the data sent and diplay it by using GET and adding the fields after the http addy

[Christopher Stapels]

Thanks for the additional information. Is there a problem or did you get what you needed?

[Alan Pedder]

I was not the one with the problem Christopher. I had the same problem but solved it. The Cricket seems to be the problem in using its payload data sending method. I followed the Practical Electronics instructions to the letter and the result was the data seemed to arrive as the 'count' showed on ThingSpeak but no data was displayed graphically. So I suspect ThingSpeak was receiving an empty file.