WeatherAPI

A simple REST API built with FastAPI to manage sensor values of IOT devices and provide data for applications.

Features

• The API allows to create multiple sensors and users.
• Users can be normal users or superusers with elevated permissions.
• A user (sensor) can create sensor data. The sensor data shall contain temperature, humidity, pressure and voltage.
• The read and write access to sensors and their data is protected. With SensorPermissions you can allow a user to read and / or write data for a given sensor.
  • This allows permission control, so that devices providing data can only write data to specific sensors and applications or users can only read data from specific sensors.
• The API has endpoints to request a forecast for a given location.
• The API offers endpoints to request data from the Prepaid-Hoster REST API, to give information about the status of the server.

Running the API

Prerequisites

1. You must have Python3.11 installed (not tested with other versions).
2. You will need a running instance of PostgreSQL. The API has been tested on version 16.4.

Setup

1. Create and activate a venv:
2. Install all the needed requirements from the requirements.txt file.
   • In case you want to develop you will also need the dev-requirements.txt installed.
     • This includes test dependencies as well as black and isort.
3. Copy the file SECRETS.example.py and name it SECRETS.py
4. Set up a user and a database for the api and update the PSQL_URL string accordingly in the SECRETS file.
5. For requesting forecast data the api also accesses the Openweathermap One Call API 3.0.
   • Create a token and update the OPENWEATHERMAP_KEY string in the SECRETS file.
6. For requesting stats about the server from my personal hoster (prepaid-hoster.de) I access data from their API.
   • For that you also need to add a valid API token and update the SERVERSTATS_SETTINGS dict accordingly.
7. To create the initial user in the database without manually writing to the database, there is a filed called cli_create_user.py.
   • With python cli_create_user.py --username <username> --password <password> [--superuser] you can create a new user with the given name and password.

Running

• To run the api use the following command: uvicorn api.main:app --reload
• on localhost:8000/docs you will get detailed documentation over all endpoints.