I have a remote weather sensor mounted on my boat. It has a SIM7000G Esp32 board which measures various things like wind speed, temperature, boat battery voltage, solar panel output, etc. It has a sim card and a soracom.io APN to allow sending data. I have Nabu Casa setup so I can get a webhook url to send the data to. What I don't understand is how to delineate the various sensor values to show up in my Home Assistant dashboard. Is there an elementary guide to setting up template sensors to handle this data? Thanks for any help!
Sorry, I just saw this and thanks for the response.
I'm not using a commercial PWS, it's a homebrew project that I program from Visual Studio. In the program I print on the console the JSON payload that I'm going to POST to my Nabu Casa server. If I post it from my program it comes back OK 200, but doesn't update any values. When I post it from POSTMAN, it updates the values correctly?? I don't get it.
I am retired, value conscious and very technical (but I still consider myself a Home Assistant noob ... as do others).
As a different approach, you could send your JSON to an MQTT broker and have your Home Assistant instance pick it up from there.
The MQTT broker could be on the computer collecting your data, a public broker, on a computer that is on the same network as your HA instance, or part of your HA instance. I would probably use a public broker because only one MQTT topic would be needed (unless you use a topic for each sensor, which would be easier because you wouldn't have to decode the JSON in HA). The other options would require poking a hole through a firewall and using a dDNS
Once you get up the steep HA learning curve, setting up an MQTT sensor is fairly easy.
This method lacks the security of Nabu Casa and cloud integrations, but, "What do you want for nothin'? Your money back?"