Hi Robert, I creeped around a bit and notice you live in Thunder Bay? I'm in the Halifax area, living on a 2.5 acre suburban lot. We moved here about 2 years ago from Calgary.
We used to drive through Thunder Bay on cross country road trips to visit my wife's relatives on the east coast, when we had kids at home. We discovered Neys Provincial Park on our first trip, which might be my favourite campground. Nice discussion on weewx. I'm using it as the carrot to learn python, and resurrect playing around with electronics. It's been effective. Bill On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Robert Mantel <raen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for not trimming the previous replies...now one more thing, how are > you getting the weather data from the mqtt broker into weewx? From what I > understand the mqtt extension only pushes weather data to an mqtt broker > and not vice versa? Maybe it does, but the wording on Mathew's GIT page > suggests it only publishes it doesn't subscribe. Would be nice if it > subscribed too, then you could completely decouple weewx from the hardware > a universal translator so to speak. Maybe it does this, and I'm not > understanding it completely. > > > On Thursday, 2 February 2017 13:40:50 UTC-5, Bill Morrow wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, 2 February 2017 14:10:59 UTC-4, Robert Mantel wrote: >>> >>> The program running on your pi that acts as a base station, is it >>> running on a node.js server? >>> >> >> No, just C language homebrew on raspbian. I'm almost completely ignorant >> of the whole java ecology. >> >> >>> I just watched a youtube video of a home automation system using >>> node.js, mqtt and 434 MHz radios. Just reading about those radios and >>> their range, would almost eliminate the need for the mesh part of it, if >>> you're just doing very low data transfer stuff like we do with weather >>> sensors. Outdoor range is hundreds of feet with very simple antenna >>> arrangements. >>> >> >> I agree, I could simplify the R24 transport. Using the mesh library >> started as an experiment, it worked and I haven't felt the need to change. >> Also, my experience is the range is barely 50m, especially on very rainy >> days where the radio waves get soaked up by the rain. The location I would >> like to ultimately use for wind measurement is likely too far for direct >> communication to the base. That said, I haven't actually tried mesh >> communications, e.g. from a very remote station through Node 5 (my current >> outside station) to the base. >> >> I've trimmed the previous conversations from this reply. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/weewx-user/zhl4I7oRtt8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
