Possible to check if ThingSpeak is ready to receive data?
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I'm thinking about adding a second channel, but I'd like both to receive data as often as I'm allowed to send it. I'm worried that if I program both devices to send data every 15 seconds, only one channel will receive data while the other will keep trying while the site is unavailable. I'm wondering if there's a way to check whether or not ThingSpeak is ready to receive data so that I can program my timers to start after receiving that confirmation. Thanks!
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Ameer Hamza
on 8 Nov 2020
Why will the site be unavailable? Have you tried sending data to both channels?
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Ameer Hamza
on 8 Nov 2020
According to the answer here: https://community.thingspeak.com/forum/thingspeak-api/rate-limit-on-read-operations/ the limit is imposed per channel for free accounts.
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Ameer Hamza
on 11 Nov 2020
If you are using webread(), then you can check from the response. If it is '0', then the data was not written to the channel.
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