About

This small node script pulls information from openweather and pushes to infuxdb. It uses slack to notify of errors.

I use this to show outside conditions on my home weather monitoring dashboard.

Openweather Data

Bot pulls the following data for the zip specified.

1. temperature
2. humidity
3. pressure mb

Install

1. npm install
2. Copy env.dist to .env
3. Populate .env with the correct values.
4. Run with node app.js or for production use pm2 or similar.

Example Configuration

INFLUX_HOST=host.com
INFLUX_PORT=8086
INFLUX_USERNAME=weather
INFLUX_PASSWORD=foobar
INFLUX_DB=highgarden
SLACK_API_TOKEN=foobar
SLACK_CHANNEL=bots
SLACK_BOT_NAME=wu-status
OPENWEATHER_KEY=foo
UPDATE_FREQUENCY=1800000
ZIP_CODE=97214

InfluxDB Data

To see what data and how it is written to influxdb, see lib/influx.js.

SlackBot

If you do not want to use slack for notifications just comment out the bot lines in app.js.