No worries on the trimming, Robert, I'm not sure of proper etiquette here. No one's complained yet.
On Thursday, 2 February 2017 14:53:19 UTC-4, Robert Mantel wrote: > > Sorry for not trimming the previous replies...now one more thing, how are > you getting the weather data from the mqtt broker into weewx? > That's my MQTT driver: https://github.com/morrowwm/weewxMQTT > From what I understand the mqtt extension only pushes weather data to an > mqtt broker and not vice versa? Maybe it does, but the wording on Mathew's > GIT page suggests it only publishes it doesn't subscribe. Would be nice if > it subscribed too, then you could completely decouple weewx from the > hardware a universal translator so to speak. Maybe it does this, and I'm > not understanding it completely. > You have it right. That's an interesting idea, combining the publisher and subscriber. I am not sure if it makes sense in the weewx architecture. There are drivers which read incoming data, and reports, which output data. I haven't seen anything bidirectional. > > On Thursday, 2 February 2017 13:40:50 UTC-5, Bill Morrow wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, 2 February 2017 14:10:59 UTC-4, Robert Mantel wrote: >>> >>> The program running on your pi that acts as a base station, is it >>> running on a node.js server? >>> >> >> No, just C language homebrew on raspbian. I'm almost completely ignorant >> of the whole java ecology. >> >> >>> I just watched a youtube video of a home automation system using >>> node.js, mqtt and 434 MHz radios. Just reading about those radios and >>> their range, would almost eliminate the need for the mesh part of it, if >>> you're just doing very low data transfer stuff like we do with weather >>> sensors. Outdoor range is hundreds of feet with very simple antenna >>> arrangements. >>> >> >> I agree, I could simplify the R24 transport. Using the mesh library >> started as an experiment, it worked and I haven't felt the need to change. >> Also, my experience is the range is barely 50m, especially on very rainy >> days where the radio waves get soaked up by the rain. The location I would >> like to ultimately use for wind measurement is likely too far for direct >> communication to the base. That said, I haven't actually tried mesh >> communications, e.g. from a very remote station through Node 5 (my current >> outside station) to the base. >> >> I've trimmed the previous conversations from this reply. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
