Thingspeak vs Phant

Thingspeak

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. (by iobridge)

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Phant

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Thingspeak		Phant
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16	Mentions	1
1,028	Stars	702
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	-
Ruby	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Thingspeak

Posts with mentions or reviews of Thingspeak. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.

Kotlin/ Thingspeak Interfacing.
1 project | /r/Kotlin | 12 Sep 2023

First of all, you need to ask yourself how familiar you are with MatLab. Then from a dev point of view, could you use an API to reference cloud data then apply analytics. Great intro to IoT. I can see that company going far in 5-10 and may invest based on trajectory. https://thingspeak.com
Should I use Firebase as a Realtime Database?
2 projects | /r/arduino | 25 Apr 2023

ThingSpeak https://thingspeak.com/
Google sheets and esp32
1 project | /r/esp32 | 18 Mar 2023

You can use solutions like thingspeak https://thingspeak.com/
Help me check my circuit for my self-sustaining water meter
1 project | /r/AskElectronics | 8 Mar 2023

I'm not sure yet. Maybe something custom, but probably not. I was thinking about Thingspeak before.
Do you know best websites for hosting Arduino Internet of Things (IoT), other than Cayenne from myDevices?
1 project | /r/arduino | 9 Feb 2023
Displaying readings to website?
2 projects | /r/esp32 | 1 Feb 2023

I haven't got around to MQTT yet, but as an easy interim solution I recommend ThingSpeak https://thingspeak.com/ as you can set up an account for free and getting an ESP to send data to it is trivial. Plus you can access it via the web, or embed their graphs and dials into a webpage. The graphics are a bit meh though.
Good Database solution
1 project | /r/arduino | 27 Nov 2022
i have an idea for a database+arduino+matlab, i need some help plz
1 project | /r/arduino | 23 Nov 2022

ThingSpeak for IoT Projects Data collection in the cloud with advanced data analysis using MATLAB https://thingspeak.com/
Arduino rp2040 connect iot platforms
1 project | /r/arduino | 20 Jun 2022

Try https://thingspeak.com/
Need help with esp8266 and esp32 communication
1 project | /r/arduino | 16 Mar 2022

Phant

Posts with mentions or reviews of Phant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-24.

I made a platform to connect cheap ESP32 microcontrollers over wifi with the cloud. Stream simple sensor data. No c coding necessary :) Would you use it?
2 projects | /r/IOT | 24 Jan 2021

So I migrated all my ESP32 sensors, over to Sparkfun's "Phant". Then they abruptly shut it down. I ran my own server for a while, but they also. killed development on the open source project.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Thingspeak and Phant you can also consider the following projects:

Thingsboard - Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

Reportr

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Freeboard - A damn-sexy, open source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups. A free open-source alternative to Geckoboard.

esp32-mqtt-publish-subscribe - This project shows how to use the ESP32 to interact with the MQTT protocol in the IoT environment. For more information, refer to the article https://bit.ly/3a3t7xq

DeviceHive - DeviceHive Java Server

Organizr - HTPC/Homelab Services Organizer - Written in PHP

ArduinoJson - 📟 JSON library for Arduino and embedded C++. Simple and efficient.

Habitica - A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.