Alain asked 6 years ago
Hello Rui,
I like a lot your training material. Thanks for writing this material in a more hands-on way than what we can find in books.
I tried to use Thingspeak for a ESP8266. Unfortunately I can’t achieve creating an account. the Service seems to be down since few weeks.
Are there up to your knowledge other equivalent service that I could use in place of Thingspeak?
Thanks for your advice
Best regards
Alain
Rui Santos Staff answered 6 years ago
Hello Alain, what do you mean it’s not working? Can you be more specific?
Basically, MathWorks.com acquired ThingSpeak.com. They now require you to have a MathWorks.com account to login into ThingSpeak.com, but it’s still working fine.
Can you please describe your exact problem in more detail? Thanks for your patience!
Rui
Alain answered 6 years ago
Hello Rui,
It says “Mathworks Account Unavailable – Technical Issue. Due to a temporary problem, Mathworks Account is unavailable. Try again Later….” This is the case since 2 weeks at least.
Thanks for your advises
Regards
Alain
Rui Santos Staff answered 6 years ago
Hello Alain, I’ve just tried to go through the process of creating a new account at Thinkspeak.com today and it worked just fine for me. Can you try again with a different email address?
- Basically, you just need to go to this page: https://thingspeak.com/users/sign_up
- Complete your details, but use a different email address
- After clicking continue, go to your email address and click the verify email link
- (go back to the page that was already open) Continue the registration process by entering a desired username and password
After that, you should have access to ThingSpeak.com. Does it work now?
Thanks for your patience.
Alain answered 6 years ago
Hi Rui,
I was trying to signup from Safari on a Mac. Mathworks advised me to reset Safari to clear the cookies. It did not worked. Using Firefox did not worked either.
So I signup from a PC and it did worked.
Thanks for the advises
Best regards
Alain
Rui Santos Staff answered 6 years ago
I’m glad it finally worked! I’ve never heard about thst problem before, so unfortunately I wasn’t able to help you properly.
Regards
Rui