satellite-passes-notifier

Pop up notifications for Ubuntu if there is an ISS pass or Iridium flare in the next one hour.

Work in progress for Mac OS X. Feel free to contribute :)

Requirements

Use the terminal to execute these commands.

• PyNotify Use sudo pip install pynotify
• Mechanize Use sudo pip install mechanize
• Beautiful Soup Use sudo pip install beautifulsoup

Setup

1. Specify your heavens-above.com credentials in the iridiumFetch.py file.
2. Add the two Python scripts to Crontab using the following steps:
3. Terminal -> crontab -e
4. Navigate to the bottom of the screen just after the lines that start with # sign.
5. Enter the following lines.
   1. 0 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/python /home/userName/cronIridium.py
   2. @reboot /usr/bin/python /home/userName/iridiumFetch.py &
6. Ctrl + O write these lines to the Cron table.
7. Ctrl + X to close the Crontab.

This is how the notification for Iridium flares look like.