1. Luftdatenpumpe acquires the measurement readings either from the livedata API of luftdaten.info or from its archived CSV files published to archive.luftdaten.info.
2. While iterating the readings, it optionally applies a filter based on station-id, sensor-id or sensor-type and collects information about all stations and sensors they are originating from.

3. Then, each station's location information gets enhanced by

   • attaching its geospatial position as a Geohash.
   • attaching a synthetic real-world address resolved using the reverse geocoding service Nominatim by OpenStreetMap.

4. Information about stations can be

   • displayed on STDOUT or STDERR in JSON format.
   • filtered and transformed interactively through jq, the swiss army knife of JSON manipulation.
   • stored into RDBMS databases like PostgreSQL using the fine dataset package. Being built on top of SQLAlchemy, this supports all major databases.

5. Measurement readings can be

   • displayed on STDOUT or STDERR in JSON format, which allows for piping into jq again.
   • forwarded to MQTT.
   • stored to InfluxDB and then
   • displayed in Grafana.

Display luftdaten.info (LDI) measurements on Grafana Worldmap Panel.

Map and station info display. Filter by different synthesized address components and sensor type.

Display verbose name from OSM address and station id on overlay.

• Feinstaub Verlauf
• Feinstaub Karte

• LDI Demo #1 » Stations by name, country and state
• LDI Demo #2 » Cascaded stations
• LDI Demo #3 » Measurements by cascaded location selector
• LDI Demo #4 » Find stations by sensor type
• LDI Demo #5 » Map by location and sensor type

# List stations
luftdatenpumpe stations --station=28,297 --reverse-geocode

# Write list of stations and metadata to PostgreSQL database
luftdatenpumpe stations --station=28,1071 --reverse-geocode --target=postgresql:///weatherbase

# Forward readings to MQTT
luftdatenpumpe readings --station=28,1071 --target=mqtt://mqtt.example.org/luftdaten.info

Usage:
  luftdatenpumpe stations [options] [--target=<target>]...
  luftdatenpumpe readings [options] [--target=<target>]...
  luftdatenpumpe grafana --kind=<kind> --name=<name> [--variables=<variables>]
  luftdatenpumpe --version
  luftdatenpumpe (-h | --help)

Options:
  --source=<source>             Data source, either "api" or "file://" [default: api].
  --station=<stations>          Filter data by given location ids, comma-separated.
  --sensor=<sensors>            Filter data by given sensor ids, comma-separated.
  --sensor-type=<sensor-types>  Filter data by given sensor types, comma-separated.
  --reverse-geocode             Compute geographical address using the Nominatim reverse geocoder
  --target=<target>             Data output target
  --create-database-view        Create database view like "ldi_view" spanning all tables.
  --disable-nominatim-cache     Disable Nominatim reverse geocoder cache
  --progress                    Show progress bar
  --version                     Show version information
  --dry-run                     Skip publishing to MQTT bus
  --debug                       Enable debug messages
  -h --help                     Show this screen

For a full overview about all options including many examples, please visit luftdatenpumpe --help.

Hiveeyes is hosting recent releases of InfluxDB and Grafana there. We are mostly also running exactly these releases on our production servers.

Add Hiveeyes package repository:

wget -qO - https://packages.hiveeyes.org/hiveeyes/foss/debian/pubkey.txt | apt-key add -
apt install

Add Hiveeyes package repository, e.g. by appending this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb https://packages.hiveeyes.org/hiveeyes/foss/debian/ testing main foundation

Reindex package database:

apt update

Debian packages:

apt install apt-transport-https
apt install postgis redis-server redis-tools influxdb grafana

Create user and database:

su - postgres
createuser --no-createdb --pwprompt hiveeyes
createdb --owner hiveeyes weatherbase

Create read-only user:

psql

postgres=# \c weatherbase
weatherbase=# CREATE ROLE readonly WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'readonly';
weatherbase=# GRANT USAGE, SELECT ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;
weatherbase=# GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;

This program extensively uses a runtime cache based on Redis. To make this work best, you should enable data durability with your Redis instance.

The append-only file is an alternative, fully-durable strategy for Redis. It became available in version 1.1. You can turn on the AOF in your Redis configuration file (e.g. /etc/redis/redis.conf):

appendonly yes

apt install build-essential python3-dev libicu-dev

pip install luftdatenpumpe

At this point, you should try to conduct simple tests like outlined in the synopsis section above.

After that, you might want to advance into reading about integrating Luftdatenpumpe with Grafana in order to learn about how to build such beautiful and interactive map- and graph-compositions.

• http://luftdaten.info/
• http://archive.luftdaten.info/
• http://deutschland.maps.luftdaten.info/

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

• https://github.com/grafana/grafana
• https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-worldmap-panel
• https://www.postgresql.org/
• https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb
• https://github.com/vinsci/geohash/
• https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim

• opendata-stuttgart/sensors-software: Support for InfluxDB and MQTT as backend.
• https://getkotori.org/docs/applications/luftdaten.info/
• https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/datenmischwerk/702
• https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/environmental-metadata-library/1190
• https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/erneuerung-der-luftdatenpumpe/1199

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