Blitzortung Lightning Notifier

This project connects to the Blitzortung lightning detection network and sends notifications to your devices when lightning strikes are detected near your specified location.

Features

• Connects to Blitzortung's live WebSocket feed.
• Filters lightning strikes by your chosen location and radius.
• Sends rich notifications to your devices via ntfy.sh.
• Optionally displays details about the detectors involved in each strike.
• Supports multiple locales for notifications
• Gives you rough location of where the strike was using the nominatim api

Usage

Prerequisites

• Rust (edition 2021 or newer)
• ntfy.sh account or topic (no registration required)
• Optionally, a detectors.json file for detector details This file can be downloaded from my copyparty server, here.

Use

If you do not wish to compile blitzortung, feel free to download it from here..

Compile

cargo build --release

cargo run --release -- \
    --center-lat <latitude> \
    --center-lon <longitude> \
    --ntfy <ntfy_topic> \
    [--delta <radius>] \
    [--detector-fetch]

Detectors

If you enable --detector-fetch, make sure you have a valid detectors.json file in the project directory. This file should contain metadata about Blitzortung detectors.

License

MIT