SensorTag Data Merged With Open Weather Maps

  • 25/9/2016
  • One-minute read

About a week ago I worked on SensorTag metrics .

This week had some interesting weather today here in Austin, and I wanted to see to visualize it as well. Luckily Open Weather Maps offers a free API for gather near real-time weather data based on city code.

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def __get_open_weather_data():

  url_path = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather'
  api_key = '??????????'
  url = '%s?zip=73301&APPID=%s'

  res = requests.get(url % (url_path, api_key))
  if res:
    if res.json().get('main'):
      return res.json()

  res = requests.get(url % (url_path, api_key))
  if res:
    if res.json().get('main'):
      return res.json()

def get_open_weather():

  data = __get_open_weather_data()

  # format our json response
  temp = round(data['main']['temp'] * 9/5 - 459.67, 2)
  pressure = round(data['main']['pressure'], 1)
  humidity = round(data['main']['humidity'], 2)
  rain = round(data['rain'].get('1h', 0.00), 2)
  clouds = data['clouds']['all']
  wind = data['wind']['speed']

  return dict(
      open_weather_temperature=temp,
      open_weather_pressure=pressure,
      open_weather_humidity=humidity,
      open_weather_rain=rain,
      open_weather_clouds=clouds,
      open_weather_wind=wind
  )

Then I merge with my SensorTag data, appending these new keys to my json file:

$ cat /sensor.json
{
 "open_weather_temperature": 71.65,
 "temperature": 74.19,
 "open_weather_pressure": 1018.5,
 "light": 0,
 "humidity": 55.16,
 "pressure": 989.8,
 "open_weather_humidity": 99,
 "open_weather_rain": 7.07,
 "open_weather_clouds": 48,
 "open_weather_wind": 2.81
}
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