Hey guys I think I figured everything out. I ended up going with John's fork for the publish and got it working. I also installed his aggregator extension but haven't ventured into it yet. Thanks for all your help gentleman.
On Wednesday, July 8, 2026 at 7:45:42 a.m. UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > 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/b57991e9-e7c4-4487-a750-b4b1cc8c18d7n%40googlegroups.com.
