@Michael
I have not looked at MQTT in any depth before so forgive me if my question 
is naive. Using WeeWX-MQTTSubcribe with the Ecowitt MQTT protocol, is there 
still a requirement for a-man-in-the middle server? 
Thanks, 
Ian

On Friday, July 25, 2025 at 2:33:52 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> Take a look into https://github.com/bellrichm/WeeWX-MQTTSubscribe
>
> James Pattinson schrieb am Freitag, 25. Juli 2025 um 13:57:21 UTC+2:
>
>> Hi All!
>>
>> I am setting up a WeeWx system in a remote location where they do have 
>> WiFi but nowhere to actually install the software. Since I have WeeWx 
>> running elsewhere, I'd like to be able to feed into a new instance of WeeWx 
>> under my control.
>>
>> I am used to using Davis stuff, but as these guys are on a budget, we 
>> went for EcoWitt. We have a WS69 with LCD display, and a GW3000.
>>
>> This is my first time using a GW3000, and I was quite happy to see that 
>> it supports MQTT so it can push data out in almost real time (down to 8 
>> seconds). I have this working and I can see the updates coming into my MQTT 
>> server, albeit in a weird HTTP POST style:
>>
>>
>> PASSKEY=xxx&stationtype=GW3000A_V1.0.9&runtime=1124&heap=68736&dateutc=2025-07-25%2011%3A50%3A12&dns_err_cnt=0&cdnflg=1&tempinf=74.12&humidityin=56&baromrelin=29.483&baromabsin=29.483&tempf=72.86&humidity=55&vpd=0.367&winddir=294&windspeedmph=0.00&windgustmph=0.00&maxdailygust=0.00&solarradiation=4.96&uv=0&rainratein=0.000&eventrainin=0.000&hourlyrainin=0.000&dailyrainin=0.000&weeklyrainin=0.000&monthlyrainin=0.000&yearlyrainin=0.000&wh65batt=0&freq=868M&model=GW3000A&interval=60
>>
>> If there was a way of having this MQTT message feed directly into the 
>> LOOP of WeeWx, it would make my life SO much easier, as I can have the 
>> GW3000 publish this out to an external MQTT server and connect WeeWx to the 
>> same server. Has anyone got a WeeWx driver to do this?
>>
>> Without this, I think I am looking at the GW1000 API polling driver, 
>> which appears to have become unmaintained quite recently. For that to work 
>> I'd need to arrange things such that WeeWx can connect to the GW3000 over 
>> the Internet, which might be challenging without a VPN.
>>
>> Plan B is to tell them they need to buy a Pi or something and do it all 
>> locally, but I would really like to be able to get some semi real-time push 
>> method doing for this use case.
>>
>> Any other ideas would be appreciated!
>>
>> Cheers
>> James
>>
>

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