@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 >> > -- 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/1678e367-e8f9-47b6-b0fc-4011a8df0c9dn%40googlegroups.com.
