Excellent. I didn't even try that. Could you update the documentation and the examples in weewx.conf, please?
Regards, Joe On Monday, February 20, 2023 at 6:49:16 PM UTC-5 Tom Keffer wrote: > With a little experimentation, it turns out you connect to a socket if you > prefer with the present version of WeeWX. Use this in weewx.conf: > > [[MySQL]] > # The host where the database is located > host = '' > unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > > Use an empty string for the hostname. Add an option "unix_socket" for the > socket address. > > This works because the driver passes on any unknown options, in this case, > unix_socket, to the MySQL driver. > > -tk > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 3:10 PM Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Joe, >> >> Have you actually tried this? The logic picks a socket if the name has a >> slash in it, but host IP addresses can also have a slash. E.g., >> https://acme.com >> >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 12:02 PM Joe Smooze <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> For those of us that prefer domain sockets to TCP for mysql. >>> >>> This just looks for a slash in 'host = ' in the [[MySQL]] stanza of >>> weewx.conf and then uses mysql.sock instead of TCP to connect to the >>> database. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Joe >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "weewx-development" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/5eeaa553-9b04-499a-8efa-79f9303ca274n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/5eeaa553-9b04-499a-8efa-79f9303ca274n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/3c457d48-de7d-40fa-af51-10b3f5273e85n%40googlegroups.com.
