Very interesting. Temporarily I've been duplicating my Twitter posts to Mastodon using IFTTT but plan to make the change to native support. Would you mind posting a link to your Mastodon profile so we can see the results?
On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 8:16:34 AM UTC-6 mfr...@gmail.com wrote: > On 21/12/2022 07:45, Glenn McKechnie wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Nothing like finding a day where you can plunge, guilt free, into the > > ToDo list. I didn't have a Snow day, but I borrowed yours! > > > > I started re-purposing Matthew Walls twitter extension (which runs > > uses RestX - [StdRESTful] ) and have had good success with it in the > > half day or so that it's been runnng. Still some work to do on it > > (phttt) but the text part works well enough. > > > > Your use of the template is interesting - that gives it a bit of > flexibility. > > > > I'll mull that one over while I continue down the media (image) path. > > > > Alpha is at ... > > https://github.com/glennmckechnie/weewx-mastodon > > > > > > On 21/12/2022, Chris Alemany <chri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The snowy weather here on Vancouver Island has given me some unexpected > >> time to work on this. I now have a working template file and python > script > >> > >> that will produce and post weewx data to a Mastodon account. > >> Just setup an account on your favourite Mastodon server, > >> mark it as a bot, > >> create an API/Client Key (under development in your account's > preferences) > >> install the template file to one of your skins (I just added it to the > >> Standard skin. > >> put the python file somewhere it can be run with cron > >> run the python file with a command like this: > >> > >> sudo python3 weewx_to_mastodon.py --server https://mstdn.ca --wxdata > >> https://mywebpage.com/mastodon.json --api_key biglongstring234fssdf > >> > >> I've attached my working files if anyone is itching to have it, excuse > the > >> messy code but it should be fairly self explanatory. You should only > really > >> > >> need to modify the values in the json.tmpl file. > >> > >> On Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 3:40:31 PM UTC-8 Chris Alemany wrote: > >> > >>> Here is the promised link to the fellow who created a Python script > from > >>> cumulus on Mac to Mastodon/ActivityPub: > >>> > https://github.com/buffaloseven/CumulusMX-Customizations/tree/main/integrations > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > >>> > >>> On Dec 15, 2022, at 6:24 AM, Chris Alemany <chri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Has anyone had a go at having weewx post to Mastodon/Fediverse, either > to > >>> > >>> an existing @user@server or as an independent instance? > >>> > >>> There is at least one fellow who has written some Python to do it from > his > >>> > >>> cumulus based system. I will share his GitHub project if someone thinks > >>> they can do it. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Chris > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > > I've been posting to Mastodon for a while now and I've done it a bit > differently. > > In skin.conf of what ever skin you are using (Seasons for me) I added: > [[MastodonHourly]] > encoding = strict_ascii > template = mastodon.out.tmpl > > mastodon.out.tmpl contains: > Temp: $current.outTemp Humidity: $current.outHumidity\nPressure: > $current.barometer\nWind: $current.windDir.ordinal_compass, > $current.windSpeed (ave), $current.windGust (gust)\nRain Rate: > $current.rainRate Rain Total: $day.rain.sum\nSolar Radiation: > $current.radiation UV: $current.UV\nSoil Moisture: $current.soilMoist1 > > Lastly I have this python script run hourly from a Crontab using > Mastodon.py and I can upload an image from my webcam at the same time: > > #!/usr/bin/env python3 > from mastodon import Mastodon > from datetime import datetime > > # Set up Mastodon > mastodon = Mastodon( > access_token = '', > api_base_url = '' > ) > > photo_path = '/var/www/html/webcam.jpg' > now = datetime.now() > spoiler = 'Live weather for #Yeovil at ' + now.strftime('%d/%m/%y %H.00') > > f = open('/var/www/html/weewx/mastodon.out','r') > media = mastodon.media_post(photo_path) > content = f.read() > tweet = content.replace("\\n","\n") > mastodon.status_post(tweet, media_ids=media, spoiler_text=spoiler) > f.close() > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d182632f-852d-4f4d-b810-93d349322485n%40googlegroups.com.
