Publishes weather from Bureau of Meteorology Australia over MQTT.
npm install bomweather-mqttPublishes weather from Bureau of Meteorology Australia over MQTT.
Checks every 10 minutes (or configured interval) and publishes to {prefix}/current.
For example, given a configured prefix of bomweather an event will be emitted on bomweather/current.
It is intended to be installed globally, ie npm i -g bomweather-mqtt
Create a YAML file somewhere. See config.example.yml
Run (replace path)
``
CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/config.yml bomweather-mqtt
You can also use Consul for config. See mqtt-usvc for more details.
`yml``
mqtt:
uri: mqtt://localhost
prefix: bomweather/
service:
observations_url: "http://reg.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV60901/IDV60901.95866.json"
poll_interval: 600000
poll_interval is optional.
1. Go to http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
2. Scroll down to "Observations - individual stations"
3. Browse around until you reach an observation page. The URL will look something like this - http://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60901/IDV60901.94866.shtml
4. Find the "Other Formats" section on the page.
5. Copy the URL for the JSON format, which will look something like - http://reg.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDV60901/IDV60901.94866.json