Ok getting close.....
in EXTRAS I have
mqtt_enabled = 1
mqtt_host = 192.168.0.4
mqtt_topic = weather/#
mqtt_port = 1883
mqtt_ssl = 0
disconnect_live_website_visitor = 1800000
which now is giving *Failed connecting to the weather station. Please try
again later!*
I am pretty sure I have MQTT right
On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 4:24:08 PM UTC-8, Pat wrote:
>
> Under [[[Extras]]] you don't have any of the skin specific MQTT settings
> <https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown#mqtt-for-real-time-streaming-options>.
>
> At a minimum you need mqtt_enabled, which you have, but also mqtt_host and
> mqtt_topic.
>
> As mentioned previously, weewx is posting to your MQTT broker using
> [[MQTT]], the skin also needs to know where the broker is so it can get
> that data too and that's done in [[Belchertown]] [[[Extras]]].
>
> On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 7:21:33 PM UTC-5, Scott Grayban wrote:
>>
>> [[Belchertown]]
>> HTML_ROOT = /home/weewx/public_html/Nettleton
>> skin = Nettleton
>> [[[Extras]]]
>> belchertown_root_url = http://
>> www.nettletondistrict.com/Nettleton
>> logo_image = http://
>> www.nettletondistrict.com/Nettleton/images/map_of_spokane_wa.jpg
>> site_title = Nettleton District Weather Station
>> footer_copyright_text = "Nettleton District Weather Station,
>> Spokane, Washington"
>> radar_html = "<img src='
>> http://radar.weather.gov/lite/N0R/OTX_loop.gif'>"
>> mqtt_enabled = 1
>> show_apptemp = 1
>> show_windrun = 1
>> highcharts_show_apptemp = 1
>> forecast_enabled = 1
>> darksky_secret_key = XXXXXX
>> earthquake_enabled = 1
>> facebook_enabled = 1
>> twitter_enabled = 1
>> graphs_page_header = "Weather Observation Graphs"
>> records_page_header = "Weather Observation Records"
>> reports_page_header = "Weather Observation Reports"
>> about_page_header = "About This Weather Station"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 4:15:22 PM UTC-8, Pat wrote:
>>>
>>> Please post your Belchertown skin settings.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 7:00:21 PM UTC-5, Scott Grayban wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ok so my weewx.conf looks like this now....
>>>> [[MQTT]]
>>>> server_url = mqtt://weewx:[email protected]:1883/
>>>> topic = weather/#
>>>> unit_system = US
>>>> binding = archive, loop
>>>> aggregation = aggregate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/myconfig.conf looks like this
>>>> persistence false
>>>> allow_anonymous true
>>>> password_file /etc/mosquitto/passwd
>>>> acl_file /etc/mosquitto/acl
>>>>
>>>> listener 1883
>>>> protocol mqtt
>>>>
>>>> # websockets
>>>> listener 9001
>>>> protocol websockets
>>>>
>>>> Still not connecting..... I wonder if thats do to the reverse proxy
>>>> with apache ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 5:31:22 AM UTC-8, Pat wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is because your MQTT is isolated to localhost only. Local host in
>>>>> this case would be your weewx server, which you must have installed MQTT
>>>>> on
>>>>> as well. Which works for weewx ==> MQTT since they are on the same
>>>>> system,
>>>>> but nothing else
>>>>>
>>>>> First, change your MQTT to listen on 1883 for external connections.
>>>>> Since you're not using SSL, you can remove the 8883, update your
>>>>> myconfig.conf with this.
>>>>>
>>>>> listener 1883
>>>>> protocol mqtt
>>>>>
>>>>> With this change it'll open port 1883 to external connections like
>>>>> your laptop.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can leave your weewx.conf [[MQTT]] config alone since they are on
>>>>> the same machine, localhost will work here like it already is.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see your skin options so I think you haven't done that. You're
>>>>> posting to MQTT with [[MQTT]], but now you need to retrieve - that's what
>>>>> the skin does.
>>>>>
>>>>> In weewx.conf you need to specify the Belchertown skin options for
>>>>> MQTT such as enabling it, hostname, topic, etc.
>>>>> <https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown#mqtt-for-real-time-streaming-options>
>>>>> You
>>>>> cannot use localhost here for mqtt_host, you need to specify the IP
>>>>> of the server hosting your MQTT. By saying 127.0.0.1 or localhost that
>>>>> means Chrome is going to try to connect to YOUR PC for MQTT data which
>>>>> probably doesn't exist. You need to specify the IP of the MQTT broker,
>>>>> like
>>>>> 192.168.1.100 or whatever. This is where having a static IP or a DHCP
>>>>> reservation is important so the IP of your internal broker doesn't change.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 2:38:06 AM UTC-5, Scott Grayban
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I seem to have missed something in setting up MQTT for the skin... I
>>>>>> followed https://obrienlabs.net/how-to-setup-your-own-mqtt-broker/
>>>>>> except the SLL stuff since I wouldn't need it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> weewx.conf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [[MQTT]]
>>>>>> server_url = mqtt://weewx:[email protected]:1883/
>>>>>> topic = weather/#
>>>>>> unit_system = US
>>>>>> binding = archive, loop
>>>>>> aggregation = aggregate
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # cat /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/myconfig.conf
>>>>>> persistence false
>>>>>>
>>>>>> allow_anonymous true
>>>>>> password_file /etc/mosquitto/passwd
>>>>>>
>>>>>> acl_file /etc/mosquitto/acl
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> listener 1883 localhost
>>>>>> listener 8883
>>>>>> protocol mqtt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # websockets
>>>>>> listener 9001
>>>>>> protocol websockets
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # cat /etc/mosquitto/acl
>>>>>> # Allow anonymous access to the sys
>>>>>> topic read $SYS/#
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Allow anonymous to read weather
>>>>>> topic read weather/#
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # weewx readwrite to the loop
>>>>>> user weewx
>>>>>> topic weather/#
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This test line works
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mosquitto_pub -h localhost -t "weather/test" -m "hello world. this
>>>>>> is to the weather topic with authentication" -u weewx -P xxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But index page is showing *Connecting to weather station real time
>>>>>> data.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MQTT is posting.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dec 26 23:19:39 raspberrypi weewx[6544]: restx: MQTT: Published
>>>>>> record 2018-12-26 23:19:39 PST (1545895179)
>>>>>> Dec 26 23:19:45 raspberrypi weewx[6544]: restx: MQTT: Published
>>>>>> record 2018-12-26 23:19:45 PST (1545895185)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I don't know what I did worng. I restraced all steps and I did it
>>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 2:12:23 PM UTC-8, Pat wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The last thread was getting a bit long. So I've started a new one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Belchertown Skin 0.8.1 has been released which fixes a couple of
>>>>>>> bugs. See the release notes, and install instructions here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown/releases
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
--
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.
