Since you have a working install of WeeWX that you want to augment with MQTT data, you want to run MQTTSubscribe as a service. It doesn't matter whether the driver is using software or hardware record generation.
rich On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 17:12:49 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > I have an AW WS5000 station, and am using the excellent GW1000 driver to > pull data off of it into WeeWX. Am also using the Purple Air plugin to > bring data from our local sesnor in as well. This all works well. > > We have a handful of Aqara temp/hum/bar sensors that talk to an Aqara-Home > bridge. I have Home automations set up to "publish" readings to our home > automation system, and that all works well. It'd be lovely to be able to > send those readings to WeeWX as well, for archiving of data if nothing else. > > It's not hard to augment the Home automations to publish readings via MQTT > as well. It looks like WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe is a good collector for such. > I've bumbled around searching for in-use examples enough that I believe I > can get the weewx.conf entries correct. > > But to make certain (before I do the wrong thing and break things that are > currently working quite well), the READE.md says that if I am adding data > to that provided by another driver, install as a service. I am augmenting > data from other drivers, but those are both producing software records. Is > service the right way to go, or will this play nicely with the other > software drivers? > > Thanks in advance. > Richard > -- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d53b35c5-7a3c-4f18-9cee-c7c22a5e2901n%40googlegroups.com.
