{"id":577,"date":"2020-06-21T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/?p=577"},"modified":"2025-12-27T22:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:26:15","slug":"update-to-lacrosse-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/2020\/06\/21\/update-to-lacrosse-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to LaCrosse weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While these updates were made a while ago they weren&#8217;t documented. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/2020\/03\/31\/adding-lacrosse-weather-to-garage-pi\/\">original post<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacrossetechnology.com\/tx145wsdth\">LaCrosse Weather station<\/a>, rtl_433 sends mqtt data to our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/merbanan\/rtl_433\/wiki\/How-to-integrate-rtl_433-sensors-into-openHAB-via-MQTT\">openhab server<\/a>. On github we found a simple means to get <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/merbanan\/rtl_433\/wiki\/How-to-integrate-rtl_433-sensors-into-openHAB-via-MQTT\">rtl_433 to run as a service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The core is to update <code>\/etc\/rtl_433\/rtl_433.conf<\/code>. There is a sample file at <code>conf\/<a href=\"http:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rtl_433.example.conf_.txt\">rtl_433.example.conf<\/a><\/code>. Most important is the <code>output mqtt...<\/code> line for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">output mqtt:\/\/your_broker_here,devices=rtl_433\/garage[\/model]<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Pi has multiple dongles you will also need to confirm the <code>device<\/code> line. Then create <code>\/etc\/systemd\/system\/rtl_433-mqtt.service<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n&#x5B;Unit]\nDescription=rtl_433 to MQTT publisher\nAfter=network.target\n&#x5B;Service]\nExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/rtl_433\nRestart=always\nRestartSec=5\n&#x5B;Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Enable the service with <code>systemctl enable rtl_433-mqtt.service<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While these updates were made a while ago they weren&#8217;t documented. In the original post on the LaCrosse Weather station, rtl_433 sends mqtt data to our openhab server. On github we found a simple means to get rtl_433 to run as a service. The core is to update \/etc\/rtl_433\/rtl_433.conf. There is a sample file at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-home-automation","category-rtl-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jtkdev.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}