Mailing List Archive: InfluxDB python library?

On Wed, 10 May 2023, 03:51 J. Roeleveld, <joost@antarean.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been using a python script for the past 4 years to read out my solar
> panels and write the data into InfluxDB to get nice graphs in Grafana.
>
> Unfortunately, the library I use to write to InfluxDB has a dead upstream
> and
> doesn't work with Python 3.11 anymore.
> Does anyone know of a different way to load the data into InfluxDB using
> Python
> that is likely to be supported for the foreseeable future?
>

The line protocol is pretty simple. It is trivial to write a serialiser for
it.

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.7/write-data/developer-tools/api/

If you can't get a good nanosecond timestamp you can reduce it to second
precision.