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Here is a webhook version of a Node-Red flow to take data from your RAPT devices and push to your MQTT server.

Need to do the following steps

1. Set up your Node-Red Flow
2. Define your Webhook in the RAPT Cloud Portal
3. Enjoy Your Output

1. Set up your Node-Red Flow

Import

Here is the node-red flow. It was done polling the API so I will re-do using the webhook but at least its a start. You need to install and run it once to determine the ID of your pill - that's the top section of the flow. Just turn the message on. Then put the ID into the first node of the second section (my pill is called Old Yella). See how

The rain collector on my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 has been broken for a couple of months and the temperature and humidity sensor died two weeks ago - it was time for some maintenance.

I ordered the Davis Rain Collector II from www.davisnet.com.au (

After months and months of ongoing issues with my Davis Station Vantage Pro 2, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase a new IIS motherboard from DavisNet.  I tried new capacitors with the old board but still had problems - it wouldn't hold a charge overnight.

The board can be seen (and purchased) from DavisNet.

A few months ago I successfully achieved the goal of publishing my weather station data to my local MQTT server. Now I had to decide what I was going to do with it.

Inspired

I love MQTT and learning very quickly to love Python.

For a while I've been publishing the tide data from XTIDE (http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/) on both my Merewether Weather site and the

Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing a MQTT to COSM bridge. Unfortunately (I think because of COSM) it has only been staying up and running for a few hours at a time.

My original code is here:

Thanks for Mosquitto

Hi folks,

I've just written a WeatherCat to MQTT bridge using the excellent WeatherCat Applescript interface.

MQTT allows lightweight publish and subscribe functionality and is used for process control, Arduino projects and lots of other fun things. The bridge I've written uses the open source MQTT tool Mosquitto

 Last Friday we set a Wind Record of 76 km/h at our weather station at Merewether. I estimate that about 20 minutes after this record wind the rain collector of the Vantage Vue blew away! (It's the big black bit on the attached photo).

It's pretty big, about the size of a 4 litre paint tin, and is held into place with 4 plastic lugs

After months and months of frustration with battery issues with my Vantage Vue, I have now upgrade to a Vantage Pro 2 Plus. The 'Plus' bit means that we now have UV and Solar Radiation available.

Lets hope the Vantage Pro has a long and happy life.