MATLAB: ThingSpeak Channel Status Update field

Question

Hi everyone,

I wanted to update this Channel Status Update field in my ThingSpeak channel, and I used this piece of code:

webwrite('http://api.thingspeak.com/update','api_key',writeApiKey,'status','good');

the code works fine but my channel never display "good" in status field, can anyone tell me why?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you enabled the "Show Status" checkbox on the channel setting page? If so, you should see "good" in your channel status window.

If you still do not see it, you can look at the raw data to see what is going on. Paste this link in your browser (with CHANNEL_ID and READ_API_KEY set for your channel) and look to see if you can find "good" in the output.

https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/CHANNEL_ID/status.json?api_key=READ_API_KEY