One of the things that we see FAQs about for many extensions, in particular
the combination of weewx-mqtt and Belchertown, is related to what to
edit+add in weewx.conf to salt to taste, so to speak.
I was thinking it might be helpful to be able to insert relatively large
commented-out blocks of config file into a section, to aid folks in knowing
what to tweak to do frequently desired things, and to do this as part of an
extension being installed.
For example, using the weewx-mqtt extension as an example...
By default it adds:
[[MQTT]]
server_url = INSERT_SERVER_URL_HERE
But to do MQTT for Belchertown realtime stats you need to (a) edit the
server_url line and (b) add a few more lines so the result is:
[[MQTT]]
server_url = mqtt://192.168.1.123:1883
topic = weather
binding = archive, loop
aggregation = aggregate
log_success = false
Is it possible to easily extend install.py to insert a block of additional
lines, commented out, into the right place(s) as part of installing the
extension ? I was thinking that some better enhanced 'uncomment this to
do that' stuff for a lot of extensions might make it easier for folks to
figure out.
I know it's easy to hack on the install.py to add 'uncommented' things.
I'm looking to have it also be able to insert comments into that area.
Even being able to read in an external file'o'comments might be good
enough if that's possible as an alternative.
[[MQTT]]
server_url = mqtt://192.168.1.123:1883
#--- uncomment the lines below if you use MQTT with Belchertown
#--- and make sure your Belchertown skin references weather/loop
#--- as the MQTT topic
#
# topic = weather
# binding = archive, loop
# aggregation = aggregate
# log_success = false
Yes I know it's also possible to expect people to RTFM but sometimes TFM
get a bit cryptic. I was thinking some inline 'comment this out to do
that' things would be helpful if the extension installer had a way to do
that.
Ideas ?
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