Try adding the following:
[[MQTT]]
server_url = mqtt://username:password@host:1883/
topic = weather #
unit_system = US
binding = archive, loop
aggregation = aggregate
log_success = false
log_failure = true
On Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 3:50:46 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> Must I do something special to push the LOOP records more frequently
> through MQTT? I've imported the Paho MQTT Python library and the loop
> record is being pushed at the ARCHIVE interval, which is also confirmed
> with MQTT Explorer. I've seen timestamp of 15:45:27, 15:40:10, 15:35:29 and
> 15:30:20 for the 'acurite/loop' topic. This is what I have in the
> weewx.conf file for MQTT
>
> [[MQTT]]
> server_url = mqtt://username:password@hostname:1883/
> topic = acurite
> unit_system = METRIC
> retain = true
>
> Is there something missing?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Le samedi 9 avril 2022 à 07 h 20 min 13 s UTC-4, [email protected] a
> écrit :
>
>> have you considered MQTT? You could setup the MQTT WeeWX Extension in
>> which it will push both LOOP and ARCHIVE records to a MQTT broker. I have
>> an Acurite 5-n-1 weather station and use MQTT to update my website as the
>> LOOP data changes. I get updates around every 18 seconds or so.
>>
>> In your Python program, you use Paho Python library to "subscribe" to
>> your MQTT host and invoke an event when you get a LOOP Record. From there
>> evaluate the rain values and take action with your car windows at that
>> moment based on the data.
>>
>> MQTT is a small, lightweight protocol that will update in near real time.
>> It is used a lot in IOT devices.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 2:31:03 AM UTC-4 Graham Eddy wrote:
>>
>>> your Acurite driver creates a ‘loop packet’ each time it receives a
>>> reading from the station. you can have a ’service’ immediately export
>>> selected data from each loop packet, not wait until the end of the archive
>>> interval (which is when database is updated). depending how you want the
>>> data exported, there could be an existing service extension available
>>> off-the-shelf
>>>
>>> On 9 Apr 2022, at 3:23 pm, Sylvain Gagnon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, I've been using WeeWx for many years now but first time posting here.
>>>
>>> I'm writing a program in Python that queries my Acurite 5 in 1 probe
>>> through WeeWX for the rain rate and if it's above 0mm, then it will close
>>> the car windows if they are opened and the car is parked. It works well but
>>> relies on daily.json to fetch the rain rate and that value I believe
>>> updates at the archive frequency (ie, 5 minutes) but the stations sends
>>> that data every 36 seconds. Is there a way to fetch this value? The only
>>> other option that I can think of is to set the "archive_interval" to 60
>>> instead of 300 in [StdArchive]. If I do that, will that mess up all the
>>> historical data already in the database? Any other side effects?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help at keeping the inside of my car dry :-)
>>>
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