Richard, To really provide you with the best advice we need to understand a bit better what you want to do.
I am not familiar with LWC so I am not sure how this fits into the picture. >From your description below it sound like you are trying to upload to WU and CWOP at a minimum - this can be done directly from weewx. Are you trying to do any other uploads? What else are you doing with your data? LdL On Saturday, 27 October 2018 10:59:43 UTC-7, Richard wrote: > > Hi Thomas and Louis, > > Thank you for your swift responses! > > I'm not very familiar with coding in Python, so Louis' approach sounds > more likely to fit my python skills ;) > > As a background: At the moment we have a Vantage Vue connected to a Mac > Mini running LWC. LWC is responsible to call an URL with the weather data > as a query parameter. It was running properly for at least 4 years now; but > now it's not that stable anymore. Besides the (headless) mac mini is > offcourse complete overkill to just transfer the weatherdata to our servers > :) (It used to have more jobs; but the were migrated to the cloud :) > > Just a couple of additional questions: > - At the moment we share the data with CWOP and Wunderground; those other > services listed in [stdRESTful] share the same config, so they all could be > used as a private service? > - How is the data transfered to the service? As a POST or GET request? And > how is it built? > > Thanks (again) for you answers! > > Best regards > Richard > > > Op za 27 okt. 2018 om 16:50 schreef Thomas Keffer <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > >> Very clever, Louis! >> >> I don't like the WU protocol very much, as it breaks all kinds of rules >> about how to design a proper RESTful service. In particular, it uses an >> HTTP GET, when it should really use a POST. >> >> -tk >> >> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 6:38 AM Louis De Lange <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Richard, >>> >>> If you read through the restx.py file that controls all of the restx >>> services such wunderground uploads you will notice a number of parameters >>> that can be specified, such as post_interval and server_url. When you read >>> through the user guide you might notice that these specific parameters are >>> documented for use with CWOP upload, not WU - but they also work for WU >>> upload if you specify them in the [[Wunderground]] section of [StdRESTful] >>> in you weex.conf file. Another useful parameter is post_interval as it >>> allows you to send an upload at the intervals you want, not every time you >>> receive a loop packet. >>> >>> Below is an example of a [[Winderground]] config segment is use to >>> upload to my own remote server - and on the receiving end I use mwall's >>> interceptor driver to receive and decode it. >>> >>> [[Wunderground]] >>> # This section is for configuring posts to the Weather >>> Underground. >>> >>> # If you wish to do this, set the option 'enable' to true, >>> # and specify a station (e.g., 'KORHOODR3') and password. >>> # To guard against parsing errors, put the password in quotes. >>> enable = true >>> station = MAKESOMETHINGUP >>> password = anthingIwant >>> >>> # Set the following to True to have weewx use the WU "Rapidfire" >>> # protocol. Not all hardware can support it. See the User's >>> Guide. >>> rapidfire = true >>> >>> post_interval = 40 >>> log_success = false >>> log_failure = true >>> server_url = http://"insert_your_own_url_here"; >>> max_tries = 2 >>> post_indoor_observations = true >>> >>> Why do this? I came up with this approach to receive loop data at my >>> remote cabin, and upload it to my home server running another instance of >>> weewx - all this to minimize the data transfer via cellular modem from the >>> remote site. >>> >>> Or you can just follow Tom's suggestions that was posted just before >>> mine :-) >>> >>> Louis >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, 27 October 2018 06:06:06 UTC-7, Richard wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm looking for a way to hit an url with weatherdata on the receive of >>>> each loop packet. >>>> >>>> If I look at the user guide, i can see the [StdRESTful] section and was >>>> thinking I need to configure something here. >>>> But I can't see a 'default' extension. Am i missing something? >>>> >>>> The rapidfire/wunderground extension sounds what I need, but only need >>>> to sent it to my URL instead of wunderground' :) >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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]. 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