I know it's a long shot... The reason I don't use JSON is I feed all my MQTT to influxdb via Telegraf, then I can easily graph thru Grafana sensor data. Telegraf at least from what I have seen is really flexible for parsing incoming data, but can't parse JSON MQTT messages (which is funny as I believe it has no problem doing them independently.) I was using Sonoff-Tasmota, but since I couldn't shut off the JSON strings, they looked pretty in HS thru mcsMQTT, but couldn't easily get data into my influxdb.
I've recently been experimenting with espurna to avoid this problem as I can disable JSON and dump my sensor payload as individual devices. However as a result, the devices are no longer nicely grouped. Is it possible to group non-JSON devices, or they too independent for the plugin to do that?
My Plan B is to custom compile espurna. It has the option to natively support influxdb as a destination, so I could have MQTT as JSON and sensor data injection direct, but was hoping to avoid this as easier to download a released firmware bin to upload to sensors when there's an update vs a custom compile and uploads.
Thanks!
ALSO WHY did I wait so long for trying Sonoff-Tasmoto and epurna... I rolled my own custom firmware for ESP devices, this looks so much easier...
I've recently been experimenting with espurna to avoid this problem as I can disable JSON and dump my sensor payload as individual devices. However as a result, the devices are no longer nicely grouped. Is it possible to group non-JSON devices, or they too independent for the plugin to do that?
My Plan B is to custom compile espurna. It has the option to natively support influxdb as a destination, so I could have MQTT as JSON and sensor data injection direct, but was hoping to avoid this as easier to download a released firmware bin to upload to sensors when there's an update vs a custom compile and uploads.
Thanks!
ALSO WHY did I wait so long for trying Sonoff-Tasmoto and epurna... I rolled my own custom firmware for ESP devices, this looks so much easier...
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