Scriptable allows you to write your own widgets using JavaScript and run the scripts on your iOS device. Anil Patro shared a starter template to create a ThingSpeak Graph widget using JavaScript on GitHub. You can use Anil’s code and modify it for your ThingSpeak channel and style.

Here are some steps to help you put a ThingSpeak widget on your iOS device:

1. Install Scriptable
2. Get the starter code on your device using iCloud sharing and edit on your desktop
3. Add a new widget to your Home Screen
   1. From the Home Screen, touch and hold a widget or an empty area until the apps jiggle.
   2. Tap the Add button  in the upper-left corner.
   3. Select a widget, choose from three widget sizes, then tap Add Widget.
   4. Select the Scriptable app
4. Customize the widget:
   1. Hold down on the widget and select Edit Widget.
   2. Enter a new parameter for your channel: CHANNEL_ID | FIELD_ID | results=X

iOS widgets refresh rate is controlled by the device. The widgets will update themselves on some schedule and eventually synchronize with recent ThingSpeak channel data.

Enjoy making custom widgets for iPhone and iPad thanks to Scriptable and Anil’s work. Anil also posted some widget code for CheerLights.

Blynk is an Android / iOS app that allows for a 5 minute, out-of-the-box experience for Internet of Things projects. Blynk already supports Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and in the future Electric Imp, Spark, The Airboard, Wildfire by Wicked Device, Tiny Duino, and ESP8266 Wi-Fi.

ThingSpeak offers the Internet of Things stable data storage, fast retrieval, data processing, data visualizations, and hooks to every web service possible. We are thrilled that Blynk is planning to support the open APIs of ThingSpeak to extend any IoT project with ThingSpeak web services.

The Blynk Kickstarter campaign ends at 12pm EST on February 14th. You have less than 48 hours to support Blynk! $20+ pledges will also get free 1 year premium account at Codebender.

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