> > I ended up going with John's fork for the publish
Since I renamed the extensiom to avoid confusion, and so the extension I forked from can live harmoniously you will need to change [MQTTPublish] to [MQTTPublisV2] if/when you install a newer version. On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 22:36, [email protected] <[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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