Well, I have made even more progress. Since I got everything moved off the Raspberry Pi to the HS4 Windows server except my RTL_433 SDR decoder (it decodes radio signals from IoT devices and allows me to publish the values to an MQTT Broker), I worked last night on getting to moved to the HS4 Windows server as well. After some driver issues and looking for a windows binary of the RTL_433 package, I got it working as a Windows Service!
I now have all the following running on the HS4 Windows server as Windows Services:
With this and mcsMQTT running in HS4, I think I should have everything I need to pull in the data, publish it to MQTT, save it to InfluxDB and graph it on Grafana. Now I need to "wire it all together" via software and settings which is where I am having problems.
My biggest issue is the lack of understanding on how to configure mcsMQTT to:
I really appreciate your help with this and feel like I am in the home stretch!
Jean-Marie Vaneskahian
I now have all the following running on the HS4 Windows server as Windows Services:
- Mosquito MQTT Broker
- InfluxDB 2
- Grafana
- RTL_433
With this and mcsMQTT running in HS4, I think I should have everything I need to pull in the data, publish it to MQTT, save it to InfluxDB and graph it on Grafana. Now I need to "wire it all together" via software and settings which is where I am having problems.
My biggest issue is the lack of understanding on how to configure mcsMQTT to:
- Take an existing specific HS4 device that has a value I want to save those values to InfluxDB.
- I realize now I don't actually care about MQTT itself. In the past it was just the vehicle to get data into InfluxDB so it could be graphed.
- I also need to be able to read those two Whole House Wattage values from the MQTT Topic and write those to InfluxDB.
- Create a chart of some of the data with mcsMQTT (I will also do the same with Grafana, but I know how to do that one)
I really appreciate your help with this and feel like I am in the home stretch!
Jean-Marie Vaneskahian
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