Too many messages per day, free account


Hello, I am wondering why I have over 12000 messages (writes)per day to a channel which I only update all 8 fields every 20 minutes. Or are these statistic timely delayed? Since testing I might have more writes, but now with my ready weather station only every 20 minutes my data will be updated. Wetterbox Channel ID: 2391212 Access: Public Can you explain this to me? Thank you for your help. Regards, Julian

Vinod
Vinod 2024 年 11 月 15 日 (編集日時: 2024 年 11 月 15 日)
By any chance, are you exporting the data in the channel, clearning your channel and re-importing the data into your channel?
Once you update a channel, you use a message. Clearing the channel and reimporting the data just results in double the usage. If you do the clear & re-import "n" times, you are just using "n" times more messages.
Julian
Julian 2024 年 11 月 16 日

Thanks for this explanation. True during my testing phase I needed clear and upload data again. This makes sense.

Christopher Stapels
Christopher Stapels 2024 年 11 月 14 日 (編集日時: 2024 年 11 月 18 日)
If I read your channel, I see 71 messages from today, and 87 messages from yesterday.
howMany=size(thingSpeakRead(2391212 ,"numdays",1, "outputformat","timetable"),1)
howManyTwoDay=size(thingSpeakRead(2391212 ,"numdays",2, "outputformat","timetable"),1)
howManyTwoDay-howMany=howManyYesterday
The total number of messages in your channel right now is about 12,000. I read 8000 of them, the first date in the last 8000 readings is Feb 27 2024.
Julian
Julian 2024 年 11 月 18 日

Good to know, i'll need to test