cbo2/weathercheck

texts weather "words of wisdom" for your day ahead to your phone at the time of your choosing

Project Weather✔️

This application will allow a user to log in and set up a profile which would include registering their phone number and zipcode. Based on profile preferences the user will then get weather wisdom words of the day sent as a text at the time of their choosing. The weather information will generate a weather pattern to establish a baseline and then issue suggestions as to prepare for the day's weather. It is intended to be used as an out-the-door prep for the day's weather.

This is a multi-user application and as such it is designed to generate these out-the-door text messages for all users of the system on the time of each user's choosing. This app will use a cron-like function to schedule delivery of the text messages and will use Twilio to send the message.

Technologies used

• NodeJS
• ExpressJS
• Twilio (API used for sending SMS texting)
• dark-sky (API used for supplying current and historical weather data)
• node-schedule (API used to schedule background tasks at specified times - like crontab)
• node-geocoder (Google API being used to convert user input of zipcode to longitude/latitude required by dark-sky weather API)
• handlebars
• Sequelize
• passport authentication

to run with overrides: NODE_ENV=development DB_PASSWORD=mypassword node server.js

branch with some integration examples to view on github (NOTE: this branch won't be merged to master): cbo_prototype

Challenges

• Since we are running background based timer tasks, got bit by heroku timezone. Had to do this: heroku config:add TZ="America/Chicago"

weathercheck's Issues

Figure out which node weatherAPI to use

Looks like DarkSky is the way to go

-Need a route as soon as someone signs up

-Automation
https://darksky.net/dev/docs

https://www.npmjs.com/package/dark-sky

http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/ <- good for historical data
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/dods/ <- good for recent data