Posting data & backing up

[TrystanLea]

@haffle

• Download all of the Feeds within Emoncms Sync in turn, and then
• Wait a couple of minutes for that to populate across, and then
• Tell the x3 Tx’s to send future data to the Pi. ***

yes correct.

Both MQTT and HTTP methods will work. Im using MQTT and its been really reliable. To use MQTT you need to set the MQTT username: emonpi and password: emonpimqtt2016.

You could configure the MQTT to start with, this will create inputs but not link them to the feeds. Then once your happy that the inputs are correct, download the latest feed data from emoncms.org and create the input processing to link the inputs to the feeds. Once your happy its all working you can then remove the EmonESP configuration for posting to emoncms.org

[haffle (Julian Berry)]

@TrystanLea

You could configure the MQTT to start with, this will create inputs but not link them to the feeds. Then once your happy that the inputs are correct, download the latest feed data from emoncms.org and create the input processing to link the inputs to the feeds. Once your happy its all working you can then remove the EmonESP configuration for posting to emoncms.org

I’ve set the three MQTTs up, and three new “sections” appear within emonpi.local > Inputs. I then ran emonpi.local > Sync Inputs, and everything within emonpi.local > Inputs then looked fine. The Inputs are not updating, but I take it that this is because they represent the existing data on emoncms and not from the actual input CTs etc. (My Dashboards are updating, but this is because they are still being fed from the emoncms data).

All good so far.

But how do I get the Feeds on emonpi.local to work / update? I have the downloaded Input data but can’t see how to merge this is to new Feeds

I feel I am so close to succeeding but am not quite there yet!

[TrystanLea]

@haffle

I’ve set the three MQTTs up, and three new “sections” appear within emonpi.local > Inputs. I then ran emonpi.local > Sync Inputs, and everything within emonpi.local > Inputs then looked fine. The Inputs are not updating

I would be tempted to delete the inputs that you synced from emoncms.org. Get the inputs updating to the local emoncms via MQTT and then manually add the input processing again. The input processing does not actually copy over properly when using the sync module and emoncms.org.

[haffle (Julian Berry)]

Hmmm, now I am even more confused - I thought that I needed to sync inputs back from emoncms.org to emonpi.local before bringing in new data via MQTT as it couldn’t be done afterwards, as Paul wrote earlier …

@pb66

However before you do!

Take a look at the sync module as that was designed to do exactly what you need regards “backing up or exporting” your existing emoncms.org data to a local emoncms (first used for migrating from emoncms.org to local emonSD when emoncms.org became a chargeable service). But it needs to be done before you start setting up any local feeds or posting data via mqtt as you cannot insert older data, you must start with the oldest data first, ie the emoncms.org stuff b4 the new local reporting.

I’m beginning to think that I am making this harder than is wise, and that I should just start everything from scratch; I had a rocky start due to poor wi-fi comms, but now that that is sorted with the later wifi widgets I’d only loose 2-3 weeks of data.