IoT ThingSpeak Monitor Widget
* If you don't know how to create a widget on your Home screen, please read a tiny manual below, it is really simple.*
* If the can't find widget in your device (sometimes it happens in Android 5.1), please find solution below..
The widget features:Create widgets to monitor actual Fields’ values in your Channel – one or two in every widget.Monitor many Fields from different Channels creating several widgets in one screen.Monitor Private Channels using Read API Keys.Set higher and lower alert thresholds to recieve alerts if monitored field's value exceeds these thresholds.View and customize charts, set up period or results count, average, sum or median the values there.Set up the URL of your own Thingspeak server instance to monitor data from it.
Tap on a chart icon in a widget to view charts for every monitored field for various periods.Tap on a Field value in a widget to refresh manually. Tap on a menu icon in a widget to configure and customize it. Configure needed refresh time for every widget.Customize widget UI, value rounding and font size, background color and background transparency.
It is really flexible, simple and nice!
* How to create a widget in Home screen.To enjoy IoT Thingspeak Monitor you should create at least one instance of it on your home screen.To create new instance you should perform the following steps:1. Long press on any open spot on one of your Home screen pages.You' will see a list of options.2. Touch the option Widgets from the list of choices3. Scroll the list and find IoT Thinspeak Monitor4. Drag&Drop it to any place of your home screen5. After a config screan will appear6. Configure your widget and enjoy!You can create one, two and more widgets with different options of your channels.Also you can change size of widget (make it bigger). To do that just long press on certain widget on your home screen and release the finger. Widget bounds will appear. You should move bound points to change the widget size.
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* Widget is not appeared in a widgets page or something like that.This is known bug of Android 5.0 and 5.1.1. Please reboot your device and check again.2. Check the URL: http://www.technipages.com/fix-android-app-widgets-not-appearing to find a couple of another solutions.It should help you to fix the issue!
Usage examples:As an example of IoT ThingSpeak Monitor Widget usage is monitoring of your own weather station.Actually it is so easy and cheap to create it with Arduino or ESP8266.There are lots of blogs where you can find related step-by-step manuals.Here are some of them:1. Low cost WIFI temperature (DS18B20) data logger based on ESP8266 with connectivity to thingspeak.com (http://www.instructables.com/id/Low-cost-WIFI-temperature-data-logger-based-on-ESP/)2. Send sensor data (DHT11 & BMP180) to ThingSpeak with an Arduino, using cable or WiFi (ESP8266) (http://www.instructables.com/id/Send-sensor-data-DHT11-BMP180-to-ThingSpeak-with-a/)3. ESP8266 Weather Station with Arduino #1 Hardware (http://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-Weather-Station-with-Arduino-1-Hardware/)#2 Software (http://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-Weather-Station-with-Arduino-2-Software/)
ThingSpeak is an open source “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network. With ThingSpeak you can create sensor logging applications, location tracking applications and a social network of things with status updates. For more information please visit https://thingspeak.com.
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Reviews (27)
Didn't realise this was widget only, not an app as such. Once I found it, tricky to configure on my phone, since widget closes if you go elsewhere to copy an api key. Once configured, very neat.
Small and functional. It displays my sensors data well. It is not working so well now :-( That was because the display for the last hour did not work. BUT Now it DOES display the data for the last hour. Is this due to a fixing the App OR is it due to the clocks changing? I really like this App!
A great app. I'm using it for years. Some ideas/improvements I would appreciate: 1) hiding channel name 2) more value than two in one widget 3) custom field name 4) an ultimate widget for me would be an option to have an option to customise my own layout with a custom background and a value placement on it (e.g. a picture of the house with temperature values placed in the picture. a click on a value would open the charts). I'd be happy to pay/support this app.
I love this widget. However I have used this widget for about a year without a problem. Now I see problems with data update on a different phone that uses Oreo 8. The old Nougat 7 phone is fine. Please fix this problem for the newer Android Oreo 8. Seems to be working again on Oreo 8. Nothing changed on my end.
Great little widget. Easy to set up and very useful. It would be nice to be able to have more than two fields in each instance, but still 5 stars as it is.
Read data from your Thingspeak channel and display on your screen into a widget. You can set different alarms for min or max value. Very useful app, thanks!
Great app/widget. Easy to set up, literally a few seconds, and shows realtime data from my Thingspeak channel.
Great app! Unfortunately in Android 12 which forced its stupid rounded corners for widgets upon us, it cuts of some text. In googlespeak this is called improvement..
Very good app, I like how customizable it is. Well done developer! If you are looking for ideas extend the functionality, it would be great to have more than 2 fields!
Nice widget. Auto update is not working. Widget needs to be touched to refresh and update the value.
Data on widget does not update automatically. I need to tap on widget to update. It was ok before. I am using xiaomi note 4.
It was ok, but stopped to refresh data after latest update. Android 8, Note 9 EDIT:With 1.4.6 version everything is OK, even on recently updated Android 9
Great app. How about incorporating Talkback from ThingSpeak? Would be nice to send data back to thingspeak.
This widget is great. Simple. Effective. Nice configuration.
One of the better ones, I like the widget display of my channels.
Excellent app, dev is keeping it up to date. works great. no problems :)
Perfect - Amazing functionality and most importantly, extremely reliable
Good app that permit me to control my personal weather station.
Great job but it needs few modifications
Hi , great widget thanks very helpful.
very simple and useful
Just installed, but can't be opened
Only need to know about alert sound option of this app.
A nice app to display info from thingspeak.
great app, simple and useful
It's showing me "problem loading widget " 😕...
I have used this widget for a few hours. It's easy to use and does have flexible settings. Very useful "app". I am wondering if there is a way to refresh the widget only when it is in view, without tapping it. I want to put a bunch of them on one screen and have them all update when i scroll to that screen.