Calculating aggregates was a poor example. If one needs to do that I would recommend using your extension and either MQTTPublish or Matthew’s MQTT extension to publish to MQTT. But, I do see a potential need to not publish as frequently for some MQTT clients…. rich
On Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 14:43:24 UTC-4 John Smith wrote: > I am looking at adding an option to publish once per day, week, month. >> This could be useful for expensive, rarely changing computations. > > > Or you could do what I did, calc once and then cache to both ram and the > storage, until and update is needed and only re-calc what needs to be > re-calced... > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 01:13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As John noted, he has an extension to perform aggregates that can be used >> in tandem with this. Or you could use the built-in aggregate function of >> MQTTPublish. >> I am looking at adding an option to publish once per day, week, month. >> This could be useful for expensive, rarely changing computations. >> rich >> >> >> On Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 10:17:26 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Appreciate it thanks. So you mean I have to include every variable in >>> the stanza and then toggle the ignore flag for each one, or can I just >>> include the values I want? I'm posting individual archive entries and will >>> probably want the aggregate ones for day/week/month/year kind of thing. Is >>> that possible? >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 9:42:34 a.m. UTC-4 John Smith wrote: >>> >>>> I posted a working snippet when I made a PR >>>> >>>> >>>> https://github.com/weewx-mqtt/publish/pull/15/changes/90f1473887deef1459cd647e3aaae129a6caf5f1 >>>> >>>> However I realised how inefficient it was trying to include or exclude >>>> things like that and have since come up with a fork that loops in the >>>> python script instead of repeating the same things lots and lots of times >>>> as seen at that link >>>> >>>> My fork can be found here: https://github.com/evilbunny2008/MQTTPublish >>>> >>>> Here's an example stanza for that extension >>>> https://github.com/evilbunny2008/MQTTPublish/blob/main/weewx-sample.conf >>>> >>>> However I shifted all the aggregate functionality into it's own >>>> extension so that values could be calculated once per archive interval and >>>> then all other extensions could access the values >>>> >>>> That extension can be found here >>>> https://github.com/evilbunny2008/AggregatedValues >>>> >>>> I'm half way through migrating the Inigo plugin to use the values >>>> calculated and so when the work on the Inigo plugin is complete both it >>>> and >>>> the MQTTPublish extension will do almost no DB lookups and I'm already >>>> seeing a significant reduction in the time to generate multiple reports. >>>> >>>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 at 23:13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm having a heck of a time even finding an example of how to format >>>>> the stanza to publish topics under the [[MQTT]] section under the >>>>> [StdRESTful] section. >>>>> >>>>> I have successfully installed this service and I see it load on >>>>> startup: >>>>> https://github.com/weewx-mqtt/publish >>>>> >>>>> I just wish there was a sample config to follow but that seems to be >>>>> non-existent. I don't know where to nest things. I'm posting individual >>>>> topics so can someone post an example that works? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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 visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c3cc4816-4fbc-46c7-b793-33f89b48b53an%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c3cc4816-4fbc-46c7-b793-33f89b48b53an%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 visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f4c519b4-6de3-4632-9a6d-96af828fac46n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/f4c519b4-6de3-4632-9a6d-96af828fac46n%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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/ee678375-8e16-4154-95db-aaacfefe7e4cn%40googlegroups.com.
