Just wanted to share that I have been experimenting with the excellent new Weather Display feature using MQTT to send data directly to Home Assistant. It is working, but there are some potential enhancements to the MQTT support that would make things much easier to implement.
Attached is a screenshot of “Mark’s Weather Station” data with the (2) MQTT lines I have added from Weather Display to Home Assistant.
Here is the configuration I am using to make this happen.
Weather Display: Using Custom tags of %temp% and %hum%.
MQTT sure does offer lots of flexibility and options
I think that would work OK, option to have different topic for each custom tag as you suggest (which is basicly the custom tag name between the % )
The default could still send all the custom tags as one topic, but having the ability of a checkbox to make each custom tag it’s own sub-topic would be perfect for Home Assistant integration.
Tags that have forecast or climate textual data would be able to be imported to Home Assistant - since there is no perfect/clean way I know of right now to handle those (due to the randomness of the amount of words, etc). No way to parse it out of a large string.