Alec, Just wondering if there was any particular reason you used a GET rather than a POST? I think the code to support passing the data via GET is a little simpler than a POST but since GET includes all of the data in the URL my nginx access log is getting hammered. I estimate about 55Mb per day.
Gary On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:09:56 UTC+10, gjr80 wrote: > > Good work, I must admit I had been stuck in the 'file transfer' paradigm > rather than 'data transfer' and whilst I have had loop based RSYNC working > on my LAN there was too much contention for my liking. I will have have a > look at this and see how your approach works for me. > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 04:41:49 UTC+10, Alec Bennett wrote: >> >> The short answer to your question is no, nothing like that exists at the >>> moment. If you have your web server (or process that wil use >>> gauge-data.txt) on your weeWX machine then it is a simple matter for the >>> generated file to be saved wherever you want, but if you need to transfer >>> the file in near realtime to another machine then no that capability does >>> not exist at the moment. >>> >> >> I added the ability to post live_data.json to a remote webserver, if >> anyone needs the ability, it's here: >> >> https://github.com/wrybread/weewx-realtime_gauge-data >> >> It works by posting all the data it writes to live_data.json to a PHP >> script on a remote webserver using a GET statement. Note the PHP script >> here, that receives the data: >> >> >> https://github.com/wrybread/weewx-realtime_gauge-data/tree/master/PHP%20Script >> >> If anyone wants me to convert it to Python for consistency, let me know. >> >> To use, set the following value in the RealtimeGaugeData section of your >> weewx config file: >> >> remote_server_url = http://yourwebsite.com/path_to/receive_conditions.php >> >> It's my first time posting a fork to github, so please let me know if I >> did anything dumb. And let me know if anyone wants me to change anything. >> >> -- 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.
