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2:32 pm
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April 8, 2019
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What exactly does "No. Annual usage is capped." mean? (Taken from the pricing comparison pages)
Also, are graphs (built-in, not matlab) limited in terms of number of datapoints? I set the limit to 7 days but the graph only goes back about 2. (https://thingspeak.com/channels/752396)
5:12 pm
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May 1, 2016
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I believe you are referring to the row "Scalable for larger projects." which shows "No. Annual usage is capped" for the free tier.
This is intended to convey that if you plan to have a number of devices sending data frequently, you will likely want to buy a license. This ensures that your devices don't get their data rejected when the account has reached the annual limit of 3 million messages/year for the free tier of service.
9:54 pm
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April 8, 2019
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Oh, so "capped" means capped based on the account. Thus, when you pay, its only capped per device?
More importantly, based on my math, I can have one device/channel that updates every 15 seconds and run that on the free tier for the whole year? Correct?
6:07 pm
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March 7, 2017
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The graphs are limited to 8000 points, or possibly less with averaging on. Be careful not to set the number of points and the number of days simultaneously, points will win. There doesn't seem to be any data in your channel older than April 10, so you wont be able to go back further than that. Also be careful if you update different fields asynchronously, there will be extral null values added to the non updated fields.
You can have one device per account that updates every 15 seconds - that would consume ~2M messages per year. If you added a second device, you would have to slow things down a little to stay under 3M messages. The number of channels you use does not change the number of messages allowed. (3M)
12:30 pm
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April 8, 2019
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I wish the graphs were limited to 10080 points or higher. That way, a sensor could log every minute (my new interval) for an entire week, on one graph. Anyway, thanks for the insight into why my graph wasn't working perfectly.
3:44 pm
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March 7, 2017
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We definitely appreciate the feedback - we will record it in our suggestion tracking log.
To get long time periods of averaged data, you might consider using a derived channel. Set up a time control that reads your channel every hour and saved the two minute average to the derived channel. Then you can see the two minute averages (or what ever value you want that is greater than 76 seconds) for the whole week on a plot, while maintaining the raw data.
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