Ok, I think I'm getting it. The main section has to have a top level topic like weewx_ha and I go the opt out route it will publish everything. Then the HA section reads those values from that topic and formats new topics that HA will ingest automatically using its MQTT integration? Am I understanding that correctly?
On Friday, July 10, 2026 at 4:59:13 p.m. UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > > I think the confusion is, do the topics in both sections have to match? > Also do I create a stanza for each value i want to create an entity in HA? > That seems to not make sense as I understood that this would read every > label and populate HA with entities of each measurement. Is that correct? > On Friday, July 10, 2026 at 3:01:11 p.m. UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Stripping out all of the comments and extra stuff (which you may or may >> not need). The following “SHOULD” publish the data to REPLACE_ME_TOPIC to a >> broker on your localhost. It should create a device named REPLACE_ME_DEVICE >> in HA. >> >> BUT, I would not start with this. I would start with the template that is >> installed in weewx.conf >> >> >> [MQTTPublish] >> host = localhost >> >> [[topics]] >> [[[REPLACE_ME_TOPIC]]] >> >> >> [[plugins]] >> # The name of the plugin. Do not change >> [[[MQTTHomeAssistantConfig]]] >> # The module to be loaded. Do not change. >> module = user.mqtthaconfig >> >> [[[[devices]]]] >> # The object_id of the device. >> [[[[[REPLACE_ME_DEVICE]]]]] >> >> # The topics for this Device. >> [[[[[[topics]]]]]] >> # The topic name that has the data to be >> published to Home Assistant. >> [[[[[[[REPLACE_ME_TOPIC]]]]]]] >> >> On Friday, 10 July 2026 at 14:32:05 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I'm definitely struggling with the docs. What do I put in here? I'm >>> using subscribe to populate weather data from my device which publishes to >>> mqtt and the topic is weather/ >>> >>> For this section of the config what do I put in here for the topic? >>> >>> >>> # The topics that source Home Assistant. [[[[[[topics]]]]]] >>> [[[[[[[weather/loop3]]]]]]] # The 'type' of payload. type = individual >>> >>> Am I putting my weather topic in here to input into the HA plugin? >>> On Friday, July 10, 2026 at 2:12:37 p.m. UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Sorry. Not surprised…. That is one of the challenges when you make >>>> things highly configurable >>>> That is the default - setting ‘ignore = false’ a the ‘topic level’. >>>> >>>> https://weewx-mqtt.github.io/publish/common-options/topics/topic-name/#ignore >>>> >>>> TLDR: You should not have to do anything. >>>> On Friday, 10 July 2026 at 14:04:57 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> Quick question. I just want weewx to dump everything into HA to >>>>> create entities. How do I enable the opt-out option with nothing opted >>>>> out? I'm a bit confused on how to do that. >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, July 10, 2026 at 1:42:49 p.m. UTC-4 [email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I released 1.2.0. This has additional information in the >>>>>> configuration 'template' that hopefully will make it easier for people >>>>>> to >>>>>> under how to configure MQTTPublish. Hopefully after your previous >>>>>> struggles, this should go smoother.After installing my approach would be >>>>>> the following (Unfortunately I don't think running MQTTPublish >>>>>> standalone >>>>>> is ready for use): >>>>>> >>>>>> Enable MQTTPublish and update the MQTT broker for MQTTPublish. >>>>>> Assuming you have a development broker that allows anonymous logins and >>>>>> does not require encryption, you should now be able to publish loop and >>>>>> archive data. Note, I'd update the topic at this time. >>>>>> >>>>>> Restart WeeWX and see if the data is being published. If so, decide >>>>>> if you want to 'opt-in' or 'opt-out'. 'opt-in' means listing the fields >>>>>> that you want to publish. 'opt-out' means listing the fields you don't >>>>>> want >>>>>> to publish. This is your choice. I'd restart WeeWX and make sure every >>>>>> thing is running as expected. >>>>>> >>>>>> Next, I'd move on to getting HA MQTT Device Discovery working. Enable >>>>>> the plugin, provide a device name and the topic to use (this would the >>>>>> one >>>>>> configured above). Restart WeeWX and things should start appearing in >>>>>> Home >>>>>> Assistant. Data "known" to WeeWX should flow in with 'reasonable' >>>>>> configurations. Some of your calculated values might need some >>>>>> additional >>>>>> configuration ( >>>>>> https://weewx-mqtt.github.io/publish/plugins/homeassistantconfig/devices/device-id/component_data/component-id/). >>>>>> >>>>>> We can work through this. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, I am slow and methodical. Obviously multiple steps can be done >>>>>> an once and different approaches can be used. >>>>>> If you run into any problems or confusion, let me know. Documentation >>>>>> is far from my strength :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance for your help >>>>>> rich >>>>>> >>>>>> Additional notes: >>>>>> Disclaimer - I am a HA novice >>>>>> If you publish the sensor state data to HA in a json formatted >>>>>> message, HA gets a bit upset if all of the data is not there. >>>>>> MQTTPublish >>>>>> attempts to deal with this, but that might be a problem you run into. >>>>>> I am not a fan of using the retain option. I find it a bit of a pain >>>>>> to reset, especially as one is first getting things working. But, that >>>>>> too >>>>>> is up to you. >>>>>> On Friday, 10 July 2026 at 11:35:04 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> That's fantastic Rich, I'll gladly be the guinea pig for this. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Friday, July 10, 2026 at 11:33:09 a.m. UTC-4 [email protected] >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I’ve been working on making the ‘configuration template’ more >>>>>>>> explicit - hopefully to make it easier for people to understand how to >>>>>>>> configure. >>>>>>>> Let me create a release with those updates. I’ll post back when it >>>>>>>> is ready to be installed. Shouldn’t take long. >>>>>>>> rich >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Friday, 10 July 2026 at 10:34:19 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am interested. I'm trying to get the weewx-home-assistant >>>>>>>>> extension working. It does to some extent but I'm having issues with >>>>>>>>> it >>>>>>>>> not populating certain calculated values. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, July 8, 2026 at 3:22:45 p.m. UTC-4 [email protected] >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I think I now have a handle on some Home Assistant nomenclature >>>>>>>>>> and have created a release of MQTTPublish with beta support for Home >>>>>>>>>> Assistant MQTT Device Discovery. It can be found here, >>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/weewx-mqtt/publish/discussions/24 >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> This release is 1.1.0; and can installed via the weectl extension >>>>>>>>>> installer. It also greatly improves the reconnect logic and has some >>>>>>>>>> additional enhancements/fixes to 1.0.1. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Who might be interested in the Home Assistant Device Discovery? >>>>>>>>>> - Someone knew to integrating Home Assistant and WeeWX. It should >>>>>>>>>> make it easier to get it up and running. Then you can decide to >>>>>>>>>> either dive >>>>>>>>>> deeper into MQTTPublish for more complex configuration options or >>>>>>>>>> switch to >>>>>>>>>> configuring it in Home Assistant. >>>>>>>>>> - Someone who does not enjoy yaml (that would be me). >>>>>>>>>> - Someone that has a robust process to build and version WeeWX >>>>>>>>>> configuration data and doesn't want to create something like that >>>>>>>>>> for >>>>>>>>>> configuring WeeWX sensors in Home Assistant (me again). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Enjoy >>>>>>>>>> -rich >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- 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/153f96d8-8d1c-4b22-a390-b6a9d49ee5a9n%40googlegroups.com.
