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displaying date for x-axis

April 19, 2019
1:46 pm

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Dear MATLAB lovers,
I beg it's easy but I can't get it to work: I only want to display the date on the x-axis.

I'm using data stored by an IOT device. When downloading the data from MATLAB the CSV contains the date, so it must be somewhere ...

Here's my code fragment:
..
Month = thingSpeakRead(readChannelID,'Fields',FieldID,'dateRange',...
[datetime('now')-days(7),datetime('now')],'ReadKey',readAPIKey);
...
minAnzWerte= [length(Month)];
allData=[Month(1:minAnzWerte)];
...
plot((1:minAnzWerte),allData);

Works fine, but -of course- displays numbers for the x-axis.

When I use something like
t1=datenum(datetime('now')-days(7))
t2=datenum(datetime('now'))
t=t1:t2
plot(t,allData);

I'm receiving an error the the Vector lengths don't match ('Error using plot - Vectors must be the same length.'). And MATLAB's right.

Can you please help how I have to assign 'allData' and the plot-command?
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obod0002

April 19, 2019
3:05 pm

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I would recommend using a timetable.

add the name, value pair 'outputFormat', 'timeTable' to the thingSpeakRead function.
You can see that here:
https://www.mathworks.com/help/thingspeak/Use-Area-Plot-to-Compare-Traffic-Data-Sets.html

then

plot(Month.Timestamps,Month.FIELD1LABEL);

should do the trick if you change the FIELD1LABEL to your field 1 label. (case sensitive)

April 20, 2019
11:55 am

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Thanks a lot for your help, cstapels. Unfortunately I'm still doing something wrong ...

timeAndData = thingSpeakRead(readChannelID,'Fields',FieldID,'dateRange',...
[datetime('today')-days(7),datetime('today')],'ReadKey',readAPIKey,...
'Outputformat','Timetable');

plot(timeAndData.TimeStamps,timeAndData.Fields);

=>
Error using tst (line 13)
Unrecognized table variable name 'TimeStamps'.

In case I'm using 'Timetable' instead of 'TimeStamps', MATLAB proposes to use the timetable-function.

April 20, 2019
12:57 pm

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looks like 'stackedplot(timeAndData);' might be the solution ...

April 23, 2019
8:11 am

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Editing the code above - it should be 'Timestamps'. No capital s. My apologies. The stacked plots are nice for timetables, but there are still a few things you might want to do that you need a regular plot for. I leave it to you to decide 🙂

April 26, 2019
2:28 am

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Nop, the hint with the timetable was also very helpful. But as I'm seeing the limitations for stacked plots I somehow want to avoid them.
My problem seems to be a basic one: how can I access the data itself? Having something like

FieldID = 4;
voltageWeek1t = thingSpeakRead(readChannelID,'Fields',FieldID,'dateRange',...
[datetime('today')-days(7),datetime('today')],'ReadKey',readAPIKey,...
'Outputformat','Timetable');

results in errors acessing the data itself:
plot(voltageWeek1t.Timestamps,voltageWeek1t.Fields);
=>
Error using tst 4er plot timestamp (line 44)
Unrecognized table variable name 'Fields'.

Same for plot(voltageWeek1t.Timestamps,voltageWeek1t.4);;

Somewhere else I had to use the given name for the field, i.e. '4: Spannung DG' (without the BLANK inbetween) but that doesn't like me either.

April 26, 2019
4:12 am

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ooooooops, that's mean ...
MATLAB killed one of my German 'Umlauts' in the table naming although it's displayed correctly in the right column below 'Channel Info'.
How to detect? Use
summary(tablename)
to display what's hidden.

April 26, 2019
9:16 am

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Thanks for the hint on summary(timetable)
Ill see what is being done about 'Umlauts'.
Does the summary command solve your problem determining the names to access the data for the previous post?

May 2, 2019
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yes, looking fine, thanks a lot for your help.
As always: if you get something to work you want more.
At the moment I'm experimenting with multiple plots and how to display the date on the x-axis (e.g. four plots, one week each). Let's see how far I can get. My goal is a plot where I can easily get the information on how much battery capacity has been used over the last few weeks and how much is still left.
Please don't spend to much time on the Umlauts ...

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