Sending soil moisture data to ThingSpeak

My post on 8 June mentioned how I am using Ubidots with the Soil Moisture Meter to save and display measurement data on the cloud.

ThingSpeak™ is another such platform and, like Ubidots, there is a function node available for it in Node-RED which I added to an existing flow, making sending data to ThingSpeak very easy. 

I created a ThingSpeak channel called 'Soil Moisture', to receive and display the data. I have opened the channel to the public. So anyone can view the data by visiting ThingSpeak , then 'Channels' from the navigation bar, search for User ID 'SpacerLabs', and open channel 'Soil Moisture'. I invite anyone to 'export recent data' or 'add a comment' ; a ThingSpeak account is required for the latter.

My ThingSpeak channel 'Soil Moisture' displaying moisture data

Each channel can have up to 8 fields in use to hold any kind of data related to the particular application. I am using only 'Field 1' and 'Field 2' at the moment to hold the moisture measurement numerical value, and packet number respectively.

There will be a break in the hourly updated data if I don't have Node-RED activated; also the situation when using Ubidots.

More 'SpacerLabs' channels and sensors could be added in future.