Listens to messages published to an MQTT broker by motion sensors and provides an HTTP API to the data.
The main file app.py has two configuration variables near the top:
HISTORY_LENGTH
Determines how many values per sensor ID to keep in memory and return to clients.
Example:
HISTORY_LENGTH = 5
ALIASES
Provides a mapping from the sensor IDs to more human friendly names for the sensors.
The format is a dictionary with id: aliaspairs
Example:
ALIASES = {"123456": "First test sensor", "999999": "The second test sensor"}
MQTT_URL
URL to the MQTT broker that we want to subscribe to.
Example:
MQTT_URL = "mqtt.yourdomain.tld"
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Log the values into a database instead of into memory in order to not loose data on restarts
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Make the aliases configurable in a database instead of hard coding and requiring a new deployment to change
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Make the MQTT_URL an environment variable instead of hard-coding it in the source code