Thank you Tom.

I am still not so sure if this i a good idea, since it isn't self contained 
in any way. Having a web page generated by a report (a skin) uploaded by a 
second report (FTP) being informed by a third report isn't really straight 
forward :)

Tom Keffer schrieb am Donnerstag, 17. August 2023 um 15:47:23 UTC+2:

> Your second approach would be more "WeeWX-like". It's likely to be a very 
> simple "report." Use the "CopyGenerator" as an example to follow.
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 12:58 AM michael.k...@gmx.at <michael.k...@gmx.at> 
> wrote:
>
>> I want to inform the front end a certain event occurs on the backend, to 
>> be more exact: when a report is finished. Does something like this exist?
>>
>> If not, my ideas:
>>
>> My front end is running a MQTT client and can be configured to listen to 
>> such events. My idea is to hook into a report and emit a MQTT message when 
>> finished. Is this possible, if yes, how? Something like this:
>>
>> [StdReport]
>>     [[FTP]]
>>         skin = Ftp
>>         enable = true
>>         user = replace_me
>>         password = replace_me
>>         server = replace_me
>>         path = replace_me
>>         secure_ftp = False
>>         #HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html/weewx
>>         port = 21
>>         passive = 1
>>         
>>         afterReport = run_something
>>
>>
>> The other idea is to create a report and placing it after the report I 
>> want to trigger the message, assuming Reports in[StdReport] are run 
>> sequentially:
>>
>> [StdReport]
>>     [[FTP]]
>>         ...
>>         
>>     [[MQTTInform]]
>>         skin = mqttInform
>>         topic = weather/reportFinished
>>         ...
>>
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