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.
>

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