Aurora watch

Monitor the aurora and get push notifications.

Installation

Install uv

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Add an .env file with the following variables:

OPENWEATHER_API_KEY=your_openweather_api_key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key
FAIRBANKS_LAT=64.8378
FAIRBANKS_LON=-147.7164
POKER_FLAT_IMAGE_URL="https://allsky.gi.alaska.edu/PKR/latest-cam.jpg"
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your_bot_token
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=your_chat_id

For local development, we use Infisical to manage environment variables. Install the Infisical CLI, ensure you're logged in (infisical login), and export the environment variables (infisical export > .env)

Run aurora.py every 15 min with a cronjob:

crontab -e

and add

*/15 * * * * /root/.local/bin/uv run /root/aurora_watch/aurora.py > /root/aurora_watch/aurora_cron.log 2>&1