BU Daily Dose of Weather

Inspiration

Ever since becoming college students, it has become a common occurrence for us to rush to class every morning. During this process, one of the mundane actions we identified was checking the weather forecast and pick out the clothings for the day. Thus, we decided to make a program that will complete this task for us.

What it does

Every morning at 8am, our program will check the weather forecast and send information regarding the weather as well as its clothing choice recommendation for the day via text message.

How we built it

We made a function that pulled information from the openweathermap API, and wrote a function that will provide the clothing recommendation based on the weather. We then implemented smtp into our program to send text messages to the user with all the information above.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into problems while trying to save the user data into a csv file so the program can save the users presets regarding their temperature preferences and phone number.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Though it seems simple, we are really proud of coming up with an idea that can actually help us in our daily life.

What we learned

We learned the basics of using API in a program as well as implementing smtp to send text messages to our phone from the program.

What's next for BU Daily Dose of Weather

We can add more customization options for the user such as allowing the user to create their own items of clothing for their wardrobe based on their weather preferences.

Built With

• csv
• openweathermap
• python
• smtp