Deleting multiple data points Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[potokslow]

Hello,

I'd like to delete multiple data points from a feed (few hundred items).

According to https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-io- ... -feed-data - tick boxes should be available allowing to select and delete multiple points at a time, however it's not the case for my account.
Is there some special condition to enable this functionality?

Thank you

[brubell]

The screenshots on that page are from a previous version of Adafruit IO.

I'd like to delete multiple data points from a feed (few hundred items).

There's no way to remove all data from a feed at the same time. Feed deletion is an API action (https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/#delete-data-point) and is therefore limited to your account's data rate (30 or 60 data points per minute for IO Free and IO Plus, respectively).

You may want to create a script which uses the delete data point api endpoint (https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/#delete-data-point) to remove data.

[vamo]

I have the same problem.
I have realized an acquisition system and the data are transmitted on adafruit io feeds.
In the dashboard I would like to display only the last 24 hours of data.
This is possible in the "line chart" modules, but instead in the "map" module the setting of the represented period ("Hours of History - 0 for realtime") is completely ignored, and all data in the feed are represented.
To clean the representation in the "map" module it is not even possible to delete the entire feed, otherwise the "map" module using that feed is automatically deleted from the dashboard after the deletion of the feed.
Currently, in order to delete the past data, I have to edit the dashboard to temporarily associate the "map" module to a different feed, then delete the feed to clean, then recreate it, then re-associate the "map" module to the original recreated feed (now empty).
Very very cumbersome...
Is it possible to delete directly and in a single operation a range of data from a feed? Via web or API?
many many thanks...

[brubell]

To clean the representation in the "map" module it is not even possible to delete the entire feed, otherwise the "map" module using that feed is automatically deleted from the dashboard after the deletion of the feed.

I've escalated this to our web team and they'll be taking a look at it on the other thread you posted.

Is it possible to delete directly and in a single operation a range of data from a feed? Via web or API?

No, not currently.

[vamo]

Hi Brent.
Thanks for the reply.
Maybe the best solution could be to finally solve the problem that the setting of the represented period ("Hours of History - 0 for realtime") is ignored in the "map" module, and all data in the feed are represented. This could solve in a better way.
Do you know if the web team is working on it..?
Many thanks again,
Valerio

[brubell]

Maybe the best solution could be to finally solve the problem that the setting of the represented period ("Hours of History - 0 for realtime") is ignored in the "map" module, and all data in the feed are represented. This could solve in a better way.

I'm not sure what you mean by this - could you explain more?

[vamo]

Brent,

I can confirm, in my dashboard I have a map module; the setting of the represented period ("Hours of History - 0 for realtime") is ignored, and all data in the feed are represented.
See also the forum

viewtopic.php?f=56&t=162021

where it was reported by other people.
This is why I was trying to find a fast way to clear the data, or else i'm forced to see a map having days and days of data, with several routes overlapping...

Is the web group informed of this...?
Correctly implementing the "Hours of History - 0 for realtime" could be a good feature to work on.

Thanks again,

Valerio

[chrispynz4]

This has also been problematic for me for a long time.

If the hours of history is zero then the map should only display the current position and no trail at all. Preferably the current position could be shown as an icon, because if it's just a tiny blue dot it will be nearly invisible.

The hours of history configuration setting doesn't seem to work at all. A setting of 1 hour of history would be better than nothing and should only show the last hour, instead of the days and days of tracks which it currently shows. There's too much activity for days and days worth of activity to be meaningful on a map. I don't care where it's been, I care where it is .

[vamo]

I cannot think that adafruit is not aware of this problem. As soon as anyone starts using the "map" module, he certainly realizes that it is impossible to set which period is displayed. So I think that certainly the adafruit web team is working on this.
The ideal would be to be able to control the displayed period directly from a drop down menu on the module itself, similar to the one in the "line chart" when in edit mode, see figure

Line_chart_module_in_edit_mode.png (27.39 KiB) Viewed 348 times

Brent, please, give us good news...!

Kind regards,

VALERIO

[brubell]

Vamo and chrispynz4,

I've been able to replicate this issue on my end and have escalated it to the web team. I'll post here again when I have an update.

- Brent R.

[jwcooper]

It's been a long wait on this bug, but we believe we've fixed it today.

If you find any further issues with this one, please respond with any details you can provide.

[makinitwork]

Hi Folks,
Thanks for all that fixed this. Just so I'm clear on what is fixed, is it the ability to set Hours of History on a Dashboard and then subsequently have the dashboard display all the data in that hour range? Or was the fix the ability to delete multiple data points?
The reason I ask is that I edited my existing dashboard setting my hours of history to 1 however it is still displaying all data points.

[makinitwork]

Further to my last post, the functionality to set the hours of history to display data in a Dashboard does seem to be working. After setting the hours of history to 1 and logging out I waited for two hours, I came back in and my 2 hour old data was not displayed on the dashboard. Changing the hours of history to five brought all the data back onto the display.
I'm glad this is fixed as that was a huge hinderance prior. Thank You,

[jwcooper]

Hi Folks,
Thanks for all that fixed this. Just so I'm clear on what is fixed, is it the ability to set Hours of History on a Dashboard and then subsequently have the dashboard display all the data in that hour range? Or was the fix the ability to delete multiple data points?
The reason I ask is that I edited my existing dashboard setting my hours of history to 1 however it is still displaying all data points.

Sorry, to clarify, it is the map history bug that was fixed.

We currently allow deleting a single data point or an entire feed (you can re-create the feed with the same name and the data will be gone, but that also deletes the dashboard blocks, etc). Deleting each data point counts against the data rate for whatever plan you're on. The reason is that it costs us (resources/time) the same amount to delete data as it does to create data. We are looking into other solutions though, but do not have anything to announced as of yet.

[vamo]

Dear Justin,

many many thanks for this fix, I had been waiting it so much! Now it's perfect.
For the future (never stop..!) consider the possible improvement of setting the displayed period directly from a drop down menu on the module itself, similar to the one in the "line chart" when in edit mode, see figure in one of my previous post in this thread. In such way the user could have different views of his data set.
Thanks again and have a good day,

VALERIO