> So just to clarify, can weewx pull weather data from mqtt? Yes > I dont see a driver for that. MQTTSubscribe can be run as a driver, as already mentioned above: *"Either MQTT Subscribe as a service, augmenting any off-the-shelf station supported by weewx with your sensors data, or use it as a driver."* I even posted the link.
> but i cant find any documentation or examples of this kind of picture It's behind the link above > If thats only possible through third party extensions If you don't want to use such extension, why would you use WeeWX in the first place? > weather data collected by esp8266 ---> publish to mqtt (still isn't clear what kind of message structure i would need to follow for weewx to understand this) It's described in behind the link above: WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe A Weewx service and driver that receives data from multiple MQTT topics. Currently MQTT payloads of json, keyword (field1=value, field2=value..), and individual (each topic contains a single observation) are supported. tl;dr; Click this link <https://github.com/bellrichm/WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe>, all your questions are answered there. Pavocracy schrieb am Montag, 12. Februar 2024 um 07:58:33 UTC+1: > So just to clarify, can weewx pull weather data from mqtt? I dont see a > driver for that. I can see there is community projects for enable both > subscribing to mqtt and also to publish to mqtt for data it already has in > its own database, but i cant find any documentation or examples of this > kind of picture: > > weather data collected by esp8266 ---> publish to mqtt (still isn't clear > what kind of message structure i would need to follow for weewx to > understand this) --> weewx subscribes to the mqtt messages and so can see > them and puts it into its own database > > If thats only possible through third party extensions, this leads me back > to instead wanting to just "emulate" a specific drivers data format to be > able to use the built in driver support instead. Because what i really want > is to really only have 2 pieces of the puzzle here. My esp8266 with sensors > attached, and in micropython i collect data points and put them into a data > structure directly understood by weewx, which then sends those messages to > a weewx instance running on a machine. But to do this, obviously i need to > understand the exact data structure of a given weewx driver, which is the > part i was asking about and can't easily find documented anywhere, i was > basically looking at the driver code and trying to see how it maps packet > data to weather data. > > On Tuesday 6 February 2024 at 23:28:05 UTC+10 p q wrote: > >> Yeah. I'm assuming you will be running Weewx on some computer other than >> the ESP and have a network connection between the ESP and the computer. I >> would use MQTT to publish the sensor data to a MQTT broker running >> somewhere on your network, likely Mosquitto running on the same machine as >> Weewx. Weewx would subscribe to the sensor data and go from there. I am not >> up on the Weewx MQTT driver, but I would look into using it. I personally >> use the Accurite driver as my original system is an Accurite. Over time as >> I've added new sensors or replaced crummy ones, I've started to use MQTT as >> my preferred method of sending data from microcontrollers to Weewx >> with various hacks on the Accurite driver. >> >> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 2:51 AM '[email protected]' via weewx-user < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A few thoughts: >>> >>> Building the "station" on a ESP8266 doesn't sound like you are planning >>> to get too far with your project. Compared to it's successor, it is very >>> limited and has some really weird flaws. >>> Why would you connect the station with a serial interface, when it has >>> WIFI on board? >>> p q's MQTT suggestion is a not a bad one. Let your station emit every >>> single sensor reading as a MQTT message, and let weewx receive it with MQTT >>> Subscribe <https://github.com/bellrichm/WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe> >>> Either MQTT Subscribe as a service, augmenting any off-the-shelf station >>> supported by weewx with your sensors data, or use it as a driver. >>> Encapsulating sensor data in JSON for the MQTT payload is commonly done and >>> supported by MQTT Subscribe. >>> Pavocracy schrieb am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2024 um 11:07:05 UTC+1: >>> >>>> I'm not sure if im misunderstanding what you are saying, or if i am not >>>> doing a good job at explaining my question, but even if i choose mqtt as >>>> my >>>> location to push the data, the data still needs to be in some specific >>>> format for weewx to understand it no? >>>> >>>> So on the esp8266, that has a bunch of sensors attached to it, in my >>>> embedded code i need to collect the data point for the sensor, and then >>>> put >>>> it in some specific format to send along somewhere that weewx will read. >>>> Reading through the source code it looked like the drivers are where these >>>> message formats are interrupted, but i could be wrong? >>>> >>>> On Monday 5 February 2024 at 23:45:25 UTC+10 p q wrote: >>>> >>>>> If I was going to do this, I would look into mqtt options. >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 11:03 PM 'Pavocracy' via weewx-user < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am working on a hobby project where i am trying to build my own >>>>>> "weather station" from an esp8266 and a bunch of sensors. I am very keen >>>>>> on >>>>>> using weewx to display the post the data, and so i am looking at the >>>>>> supported drivers and wondering if there is an obvious answer to which >>>>>> driver i should be targeting for my weather station output. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there an obvious choice for which driver supports the most data, >>>>>> or perhaps is the easiest data to read or is there a driver that is the >>>>>> most robust? (particularly for serial connections) >>>>>> >>>>>> any thoughts or experience on the matter would be greatly appreciated >>>>>> :) >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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/831bd64d-0271-459c-9b52-929817b02319n%40googlegroups.com >>>>>> >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/831bd64d-0271-459c-9b52-929817b02319n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>> 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/f0733294-4828-4b22-941a-33de46a803fbn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f0733294-4828-4b22-941a-33de46a803fbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> Peter Quinn >> (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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