[weewx-development] Re: continuation of discussion on wxMesh MQTT

2017-03-24 Thread mwall
On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 8:13:57 PM UTC-4, Robert Mantel wrote: > > Bill, I have a question about the format of the MQTT message. I have my > raspberry pi running weewx, I also have that unit using mathew's mqtt > publisher to push data to my mosquitto server. I set up another virtual >

[weewx-development] Re: Modifying the database schema using variables from weewx.config

2017-03-24 Thread mwall
On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 4:38:00 PM UTC-4, Thomas Carlin wrote: > > One thing that is worth mentioning, I don't intend to use this to replace > the weatherstation driver, in my case Vantage. I have been following the > code examples listed in Adding a second datasource, > http://weewx.com

[weewx-development] Re: continuation of discussion on wxMesh MQTT

2017-03-24 Thread Robert Mantel
Bill, I have a question about the format of the MQTT message. I have my raspberry pi running weewx, I also have that unit using mathew's mqtt publisher to push data to my mosquitto server. I set up another virtual machine running weewx with your driver, but for the life of me cannot get your

[weewx-development] Re: Modifying the database schema using variables from weewx.config

2017-03-24 Thread Thomas Carlin
One thing that is worth mentioning, I don't intend to use this to replace the weatherstation driver, in my case Vantage. I have been following the code examples listed in Adding a second datasource, http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Adding_2nd_source. In this example, there is little ment

[weewx-development] Re: Modifying the database schema using variables from weewx.config

2017-03-24 Thread mwall
On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 10:42:36 AM UTC-4, Thomas Carlin wrote: > > RE: the units, how does the rest of Weewx handle those? is it done by the > driver, or the engine, or the device? I would like to stay consistent with > the rest of the software. Since this is really only accessing a si

[weewx-development] Re: Modifying the database schema using variables from weewx.config

2017-03-24 Thread Thomas Carlin
I like that layout for the config file, and looping over it should be trivial. Your first question is exactly the reason that I want to handle as much of this automagically as possible. The ESP platform is flexible enough, think postage stamp sized Arduino, with built in WiFi, that costs $5,