Published August 17, 2022 © GPL3+

Weather Alert using Blot IOT

Its simple weather alert system and can serve different purposes. This project is made using bolt wifi module and python coding

IntermediateFull instructions provided1 hour76

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Bolt IoT Bolt WiFi Module

Buzzer

Jumper wires (generic)

Breadboard (generic)

LED (generic)

Software apps and online services

Bolt IoT Bolt Cloud

Twilio SMS Messaging API

OpenWeatherMap

Story

Explanation about the working

Logic of the program

The code of this project is simple to understand. First we arrange all the necessary API's, Hardware and Software services.

The program will fetch the Real-time weather details in your locality and indicate you about the weather

Lets under understand it step by step

Set up software services

Set up Bolt cloud and get API and Device ID

In the API section you can get you API and DEVICE ID

Set up Twilio

https://www.twilio.com/iot

Get you Email and Phone number verified

Follow the Onboarding process

Trial number is the FROM number. FROM number is the number you will receive SMS from

Now get you SID, AUTH_TOKEN and FROM number.

Set up OpenWeatherMap

https://openweathermap.org/ go to this site and login.

Get you account verified

Go to API section and subscribe Current Weather Data

Once you subscribe to Current Weather Data you can use it for Real-time tracking of weather of you locality

Go to the Api Docs Section of Current Weather Data and you would see all the information regarding the Api usage and Json format of API

Find out you longitude and latitude of you locatice and mention it in the parameter of your API

Lets have look at the response of the API

This is the response of our API, as seen its in JSON format

Set up Hardware connection

Use Breadboard to form the circuit

However you can connect the positive side of the buzzer and LED to any of the Pins ( '0' '1' '2' '3' '4' ). But make sure you mention the correct pin number in the Code

Understanding the Code

Create conf.py file which contains all your API's and ID's

SID = "Write your twillio SSID here" #generated when you have created your twillio account"

AUTH_TOKEN = "write your twillio auth_token here" #you can access it from your twillio account dashboard

FROM_NUMBER = "This is the number generated by twillio"

TO_NUMBER = "This is your personal mobile number"#must add +91 in the beginning 

BOLT_API = "This your bolt api key"
DEVICE_ID = "This your bolt device id like BOLTXXXXXXXX"

Start with importing libraries and files

pass API_KEY and DEVICE_ID from conf.py file to Bolt and use mybolt variable

pass AUTH_TOKEN,TO_NUMBER and FROM_NUMBER from conf.py file to Sms and use sms variable

Fetch the Real-time weather report using the OpenWeatherMap site API

use requests.get( ) method to get the real-time data. We know that OpenWeather site will get us the data of weather in json format. So we use api_data=api_link.json( ) as to fetch each weather data by api_data variable.

If you want you can print api_data and see the result of how the data is displayed.

Now we get the data we require

Since we get the data in json format which is nothing but object notation. so we access the Value of the object and store it into different variables corresponding to it.

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp You can visit this site to know more about Json and how to access the value of the object.

Main logic of the program

Now we have come to the main logic part. This block of code is simple If, Else-If method of python. We first check IF the status of the weather is 'Rain' or 'Drizzle' or 'Thunderstorm' and if the condition is true then this block of code will be executed and Buzzer starts to beep hence the following things will be printed.

Else-If we check if the status of the weather is 'Clouds' or 'Clear' and print the following. If this case is true then it indicates that Weather is suitable to dry our cloths and for this reason LED starts to glow.

Now the last block of code

With out the except method our try method will not work so be careful about this. The except Exception as e statement is a statement that defines an argument to the except statement. e in the latter statement is utilized to create an instance of the given Exception in the code and makes all of the attributes of the given Exception object accessible to the user.

I have given time.sleep as to induce time delay. Then in the end mybolt.digitalWrite('4, 'LOW') is for turning off the buzzer or LED

Full code view

Output of the code

Alert Message from Twilio

We have completed our project. You can use the same logic and methods to do various other projects. I hope you found it helpful.

Thank you

Code

import conf
import time
import json
import requests
from boltiot import Bolt,Sms

mybolt=Bolt(conf.API_KEY,conf.DEVICE_ID)
sms=Sms(conf.SID,conf.AUTH_TOKEN,conf.TO_NUMBER,conf.FROM_NUMBER)

my_api="https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=12.901074&lon=77.723770&appid=9deb1f4d5a90ffa8c3e35fedc41f4c6e"

api_link= requests.get(my_api)
api_data= api_link.json()
#print(api_data)

status=api_data['weather'][0]['main']
temp=int(((api_data['main']['temp'])-273))
description=api_data['weather'][0]['description']
wind_speed=api_data['wind']['speed']

while True:

 try:
  if status == 'Rain' or status == 'Drizzle' or status == 'Thunderstorm':
   mybolt.digitalWrite('4','HIGH')
   print("\nIts Raining , get you cloths from the root ")
   print("\nWeather out is "+description)
   print("\nTemperature is: "+str(temp)+" Celcious")
   print("\nWind speed is "+str(wind__speed))
   response1=sms.send_sms("Alert get your cloths ")
   print("\nStatus of SMS: "+str(response1.status))
   print("------------------------------------------")

  elif status == 'Clouds' or status == 'Clear':
   mybolt.digitalWrite('3','HIGH')
   print("\nYout can Dry your cloths outside")
   print("\nWeather outside is: "+description)
   print("\nTemperature is: "+str(temp)+" celcious")
   print("\nWind speed is "+str(wind_speed))
   response1=sms.send_sms("Its Dry outside ")
   print("\nStatus of SMS: "+str(response1.status))
   print("------------------------------------------")

 except Execption as e:
      print(e)
 time.sleep(10)
 mybolt.digitalWrite('4','LOW')
 mybolt.digitalWrite('3','LOW')
 time.sleep(10)

Credits

Utkarsh tiwari

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Weather Alert using Blot IOT

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Explanation about the working

Set up software services

Set up Hardware connection

Understanding the Code

Full code view

Output of the code

Alert Message from Twilio

Schematics

Circuit Digram

Code

main.py

conf.py

Credits

Utkarsh tiwari

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Weather Alert using Blot IOT

Weather Alert using Blot IOT

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Explanation about the working

Set up software services

Set up Hardware connection

Understanding the Code

Full code view

Output of the code

Alert Message from Twilio

Schematics

Circuit Digram

Code

main.py

conf.py

Credits

Utkarsh tiwari

Comments

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