Will do, I think the only thing I got hung up on was using the correct URL to pull the extension right into the container I'm running weewx in.
On Wednesday, July 8, 2026 at 8:40:13 a.m. UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Thanks for letting us know. Let me know if there is something I can do to > help reduce the confusion. > rich > > On Wednesday, 8 July 2026 at 08:36:29 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> 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. 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