MQTT username and password in new Belchertown skin

didier....@gmail.com

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Oct 30, 2021, 8:49:26 AM10/30/21

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Hi all

My question is about Belchertown skin last update with new parameters; mqtt_websockets_username and mqtt_websockets_password

In weewx.conf I have a paragraph (from mqtt github):

[StdRESTful]

[[MQTT]]

server_url = mqtt://xxxxxxxxxxx:yyyyyyyyyyyy@localhost:1883/

topic = weather

and 2 new lines (from skin.conf):

mqtt_websockets_username = "xxxxxxxxxxxx"

mqtt_websockets_password = "yyyyyyyyyyyyy"

Why I am obliged to duplicate username and password in the same file?

Many thanks

Have a good week-end

Karen K

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Oct 30, 2021, 2:32:25 PM10/30/21

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Oh, that are very different things.

In Section [StdRestful][[MQTT]] that's the username and password, the WeeWX MQTT extension needs to send data to the MQTT broker.

In Section [StdREport][[Belchertown]] or skin.conf that's the username and password, the user's browser (that displays the website, may be at the other end of the world) needs to receive data from the MQTT broker. If the broker does not require a username and/or password to receive data (i.e. allows anonymous read access), the parameters remain empty here.

Didier Decoodt

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Oct 30, 2021, 2:50:32 PM10/30/21

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Many thanks for this explanation.

I thought there was a duplicate...

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