simonschick / blitzortungapi

Simple WebSocket API for Blitzortung.de

BlitzortungAPI

Simple WebSocket API for Blitzortung

Installation

Install via npm npm i -S @simonschick/blitzortungapi

Documentation

Please see the example

Notes

• This project uses TypeScript and I highly recommend using TypeScript for it's consumption.
• As the Client is relatively simple I will add not in depth documentation.

blitzortungapi's Issues

IP/port changed

Blitzortung appears to have changed how their web sockets work. Inspecting the official website's JS, I found that the new port it uses is now 3000, and it also alternates between different websocket servers randomly (or pulls the last one from cookies), and also uses wss instead of ws:
wss://ws5.blitzortung.org:3000
wss://ws7.blitzortung.org:3000
wss://ws6.blitzortung.org:3000
wss://ws1.blitzortung.org:3000
I have fixed this locally for now by editing the Client.js file and setting the websocket URL to be wss://ws1.blitzortung.org:3000.

setArea not limiting area of observation

Apologies for posting another issue report. :)
I have noticed that using setArea doesn't actually limit the area for tracking the lightning strikes. Maybe this got changed at some point as well. I am giving it the standard object like so:

area
  - from
    - latitude: 46.557853
    - longitude: 17.702659
  - to
    - latitude: 44.557853
    - longitude: 19.702659

The method accepts the object without any errors, but the API gives strikes for the whole globe regardless.

While this issue does not impede my use case, as I check the distance to strikes anyway, it would help to lower the need for processing so many strikes regardless.