[weewx-user] Re: MQTT for remote site and min data transfer - MQTT Driver as input to weewx

2020-01-11 Thread Louis De Lange
Time to revisit this old post as I finally spent some time with morrowwm's wxMesh driver to make slight modifications required for this use case. It has been working well for the last week and I am making it available in case it may be useful for someone else. If there is sufficient interest

[weewx-user] Re: MQTT for remote site and min data transfer - MQTT Driver as input to weewx

2018-09-09 Thread gjr80
Hi, That error is telling you that the field dateTime does not exist in your loop packet so I doubt the issue is whether dateTime is an integer or a float, its more fundamental than that. I would be looking at the wxMesh driver; do you have it configured properly, are there any field maps that

[weewx-user] Re: MQTT for remote site and min data transfer - MQTT Driver as input to weewx

2018-09-08 Thread Louis De Lange
Pat, Thank you for the insight. I already understood most of what you described, but your point that the data should be on weather/loop worked. So changing that now the loop is activated when data arrives, but I am getting an error about data type for dateTime. File "/usr/bin/weewxd",

[weewx-user] Re: MQTT for remote site and min data transfer - MQTT Driver as input to weewx

2018-09-08 Thread Pat
Hi Louis, I don't have any specific experience with wxMesh, but maybe I can help a little with MQTT. In general, the # in a topic ID means "I want to see everything in this topic". This is good for debugging, but typically bad practice for anything else. For example if my broker is available