okay, I'll try that out. thank you! On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 7:17:30 AM UTC-4 Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Ty <[email protected]> writes: > > > The way I have it set up is all of the sensors are connected on a > sparkfun > > board on my arduino, and then the pi is powering the arduino. I'm just > > sending the data from the arduino straight to the pi with a usb > connection > > and outputting it into a .csv > > > > I don't think using MQTT would be necessary. Maybe I should have > described > > my setup a little more clearly. > > Basically you have to do some combination of putting your data into a > form that can be ingested by an existing driver, or creating a driver > that will ingest the data in some other form. > > I too am in the "MQTT is the right answer". You can easily run a broker > on the Pi, or you can run it on whatever machine you are going to run > weewx on. Then you can use MQTTSubscribe which I am 95%+ sure supports > being a driver (rather than a service). > > Probably you want to put json with everything from the csv into a topic, > but you may just want separate topics. Read the MQTTSubscribe info to > figure out what it wants and write the data in that format. > > Also, once you have MQTT, you may want to do home automation or > something else, and then that will be able to read weather information. > > Overall, I think the fastest path to success, with you writing the least > code, where success means things are 100% reliable, is writing the > sensors into MQTT and using MQTTSubscribe. At least that's what I > would do. > > I have a bunch of ESP8266 with sensors all sending data in MQTT, read by > Home Assistant. weewx uses the Davis driver and then publishes every > archive interval to MQTT. So in weewx I just see weather, and in Home > Assistant I see weather and various indoor temps, battery voltage, etc. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a778ebe4-929e-448d-baeb-f21b64322314n%40googlegroups.com.
