Excellent, that worked, Tom. I've updated the wxMesh driver to read JSON, motivated by the death of the Raspberry Pi B1 I was using as a gateway between nrf24 radios and MQTT. I'll get it up to git hub after a bit more testing.
The prototype outdoor station uses a nrf24 radio, the new one I am working on uses the lower frequency RF69 model which has better range and still plenty of bandwidth. The RF24 gateway is moved to a nodeMCU, propped up by a not-yet-integrated radiometer and faithfully guarded by my mascot. [image: 20181019_135358annotated.jpg] On Friday, 19 October 2018 12:33:43 UTC-3, Tom Keffer wrote: > > Just include it in quotes: > > topic = "wx/net13/#" > > -tk > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 7:01 AM Bill Morrow <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The configuration of my wxMesh driver includes the MQTT topic to >> subscribe to for readings. >> >> I would like to set it to something like >> >> wxMesh] >> driver = user.wxMesh >> >> # MQTT specifics >> ... >> topic = wx/net13/# >> >> >> so that publications by various nodes are all subscribed to by the >> driver. Each publisher publishes on its own topic, for example >> wx/net13/outdoor >> wx/net13/wind >> wx/net13/indoor >> and I would like the driver to subscribe to all >> >> It looks like python is interpreting the "#" as the start of a comment. >> >> If I escape the "#", >> >> topic = wx/net13/\# >> >> the driver does this: >> >> Oct 19 10:51:43 hostname weewx[31754]: wxMesh: MQTT topic is wx/net13/\ >> >> I can remove the configuration in weewx.conf >> >> #topic = wx/net13/\# # topic is all weather (indoor and >> outdoor, e.g.) >> >> and hard code it in the driver >> >> def __init__(self, **stn_dict): >> # where to find the data file >> self.host = stn_dict.get('host', 'localhost') >> self.topic = stn_dict.get('topic', 'wx/net13/#') >> >> but would prefer to have it configurable. >> >> >> >>
