bomthegov is a tool that can fetch satellite images, or rain or wind radar images, from the Australien [sic] Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) public archive, and build simple timelapse videos from the collected data.
It currently relies on wget to fetch the images from the public BOM FTP server, imagemagick and ffmpeg to make timelapse videos, and dialog to display pretty menus.
For the moment, it's also particular to Debian-based Operating Systems, prefers GNU awk, and probably a somewhat recent version of bash.
It's tested but unstable, and of course, a hacky hobby project, so use as beerware.
bomthegov has been tested on Debian 12.6, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Linux Mint 21.3. It may work on other Debian derivatives, but these haven't been checked yet, so proceed on your own adventure. ;)
Make sure you have the required software on your system:
sudo apt install bc curl dialog ffmpeg gawk git imagemagick wget
Clone this repo and go into it:
git clone https://github.com/nooblag/bomthegov.git
cd bomthegov
bash bomthegov
will display a help screen to get you started.
More in-depth documentation can be explored inside the program, by running:
bash bomthegov help
or by browsing the 'docs' folder.
List available satellites:
bash bomthegov satellite list
Print the list of available satellites as searchable text:
bash bomthegov satellite search
Fetch 2km resolution infrared/visual true-colour satellite images of Australia in equirectangular projection from the past 24 hours:
bash bomthegov satellite ide00406
Fetch the same as above, but narrow the query of images to only inside 10 minutes past 8pm UTC:
bash bomthegov satellite ide00406 20:1?
Make a timelapse video from that collected image set:
bash bomthegov timelapse ide00406