wildmountainfarms/solarthing

Question: local JSON file

githubtobi opened this issue · 2 comments

githubtobi commented

Hi there,
thank you for developing this awesome piece of software!
I just wanted to know how to export the data to a local JSON file (without a database) and/or the POST Endpoint URL of the "Rest API".

It is mentioned in the readme file, but not in the docs. :-)

retrodaredevil commented

Yeah. I think the local JSON file used to exist a long time ago (I'll update the readme). The post feature does exist but is not documented. I likely won't add the JSON file feature back because it's just not useful except for debugging.

You can use the post feature by using this in place of a database:

{
  "type": "post",
  "url": "http://localhost:8080/"
}

That JSON data goes in its own file like a couchdb.json file or a influxdb.json file. You can name it whatever you'd like. Maybe post.json.

The API that consumes the data should expect one POST call per packet. I'll hopefully add some documentation on that at some point, but it's one of the lesser used features.

githubtobi commented

thanks for the quick answer, will try the post method, otherwise I'll got with mqtt :-).