Calling functions in uMQTT

[Dezert754]

So I tried sending some data to Adafruit IO. I followed the guide created by Chris from core electronics located here. All his code works perfect, I can turn on and off my LED and the random data is sent fine. However I tried to add some of my own functions and it seems that they are not called.

I am used to the python way of creating and calling a function:

def some_random_function
    print("Apples!")

some_random_function()

However the umqtt doesn't feature anything like that so it looks like chris' functions get called automatically.

So I attempted to create my function following what he did, however my function doesn't even get called as I dont get my first print statement.

def send_bme():
    print("Wipy trying to send: ", bme280.values)
    try:
        client.publish(topic=AIO_BME_FEED, msg=str(bme280.values))
        print("Success!")
        time.sleep(5)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Failed!")
        time.sleep(5)

[Paul Thornton]

I took a quick glance at the code you linked.

Looks like he calls his send_random function from the main loop each time.

You'll need to do the same to have yours called

while 1:              # Repeat this loop forever
        client.check_msg()# Action a message if one is received. Non-blocking.
        send_random() #here. 
        some_random_function() #add a call to your function here
        

[Dezert754]

@paul-thornton Thanks very much! So obvious, I dont know how I missed that, haha.

[Paul Thornton]

@dezert754 We've all had those moments :P glad its all sorted.