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All right. Congratulations on reaching the final project for the day.

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Head on over to the course resources and download the starting files for the ISS

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overhead notifier project.

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If you followed along with all the lessons today,

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then you've seen how we can get data from a particular API by simply just

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providing an endpoint. So this is the simplest type of API calls.

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And then you saw how we could pass, along with the API call, a set of parameters

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in the form of a Python dictionary in order to get a specific piece of data that

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we want based on the parameters that we pass over. So in this case,

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it was the sunrise and sunset time of our local area.

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Now later on,

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I showed you how we can split the string that we get back from the sunrise and

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sunset times in order to get the particular numbers that we're interested in,

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which is the time of the sunrise and sunset in the 24-hour clock format.

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Now it's time to put all of this together.

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If the ISS is close to my current position and it's currently dark,

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so basically it's nighttime, then send me an email to tell me to look up.

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That's the objective of the challenge. However, as a bonus challenge,

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see if you can further modify the code so that it runs every 60 seconds

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if the ISS is overhead.

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These are the three things that we need to achieve. And just as a quick tip

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before you get started,

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remember that the sunrise and sunset times are both in the format of strings.

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So if you want to be able to work with them to compare to time

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now, you also have to change this to an integer.

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Now, the second tip I've got is that the ISS position,

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the longitude and latitude that you get back, will be decimal numbers,

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but it is currently in the format of a string.

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So you'll need to convert that into a floating-point number

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if you want to compare it against your current position. Now,

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when we're checking whether if the ISS is overhead,

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we want to have a margin of error. It doesn't have to be right above me,

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precise to this number of decimal points. It can be plus or minus five.

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So if the ISS's latitude with anywhere between say 56 and,

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um, 51 minus five, which is 46,

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then that's perfectly fine. That means I'll still be able to see it.

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Take a look and find your own latitude and your own longitude

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and see if you can figure out how to compare that against the ISS's a latitude

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and longitude and adding in that degree of error. In fact,

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consider creating a function that returns true if your position is within plus five

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or minus five degrees of the ISS position and false otherwise.

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So you should now have all the capabilities to complete this challenge.

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Pause the video,

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give that a little bit of a think and see if you can complete the challenge.

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Thank you.

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All right. What

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we want to do up here is we wanna compare the ISS's position against our

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position. Now,

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what we want to check is to see if our position is within plus or minus five

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degrees of the ISS position. So let's take one part of that position,

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the ISS's latitude

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and we want to check to see if it is close to my latitude.

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If my latitude is currently 51,

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then 51 minus five would be 46.

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So we can check to see if 46 is less than or equal to the ISIS latitude.

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And then if the ISS latitude is less than or equal to 51 plus five,

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which is 56. Then if this is true,

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it means that this value is in between these two values.

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So let's replace these numbers with my actual latitude.

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So MY_LAT - 5

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and then MY_LAT + 5.

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And then we have to make sure that it's also true for the longitude.

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So we're going to do basically the same thing,

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but this time using my longitude.

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So in my longitude minus five is less than or equal to the ISS's longitude

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and the ISS longitude

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should be less than or equal to my longitude plus five.

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If both of these things are true,

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then my position is pretty much within plus or minus five degrees of the ISS.

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At this point, I should probably create some sort of a function for this.

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So I could say is_iss_overhead.

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And I can indent all of this into that function.

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And if this happens to be true, I'm going to return true.

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This part deals with checking

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whether if the ISS is at a similar position to my position,

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the next part deals with figuring out whether if it's nighttime or not.

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So again,

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let's create a function and I'll call it is_night.

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And this function is going to return true when it is actually nighttime. In

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order to figure out whether if it is nighttime,

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then we're going to get a response - so there's a typo there -

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from our request to the sunrise-sunset API

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passing in all of these parameters which contain my current location.

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And then from the data we get back,

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we figure out the sunrise and sunset time by formatting that string

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and then turning it into an integer

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which is going to represent the current hour in the 24-hour time format.

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So then we figure out, well,

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what is the current time using the datetime module?

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And we can check to see, well,

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if the time now is greater than or equal to the sunset time,

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or if the time now is less than or equal to the sunrise time,

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then it means it's dark.

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So now we're getting a warning telling us that this time now is a datetime

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object, but the sunset and sunrise are whole numbers or integers.

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So what's happened well? Datetime now is, in fact,

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the current date and time,

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but what we actually want is the current hour and that converts it into an

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integer making this comparison valid.

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So if it is currently nighttime,

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then we're going to return true. And if the ISS is overhead,

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then we're also going to return true. So now we've done these two parts,

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all that's left to do is once both of these things are true

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we can send ourselves an email to tell us to look up.

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So if the ISS is overhead and it is currently nighttime,

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then we're going to initiate our email sending

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which is going to require our smtplib.

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And I'm also going to add my email and password as constants up here.

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And now we can create our connection

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and I'm using again a Gmail server.

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So it's going to be smtp.gmail.com.

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So we went through all of this when we talked about email in detail.

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So I won't waste time talking about it again,

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right?

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I'm going to send this email from my own address and also to my own address

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because after all I'm just making a notification for myself. And the message in this

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case is going to have the subject line of look up and I can even add an emoji

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here.

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And then the content is going to say

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The ISS is above you in the sky.

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That's it. That's all there is to this. Now,

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it'd be quite hard to test this code because we have to wait for the perfect

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condition before all of these things will actually be true. While this is the end

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of the challenge for you,

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there's one thing I want to change with this code to make it a little bit

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better.

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We can actually put this if statement inside a while loop.

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So we could say while true,

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which means this loop is going to go again and again, and again,

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checking if the ISS is overhead and it's at night.

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Now this is going to happen quite frequently because its in a while loop,

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but we can slow it down by using the time module.

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So we could import the time module and then say time.sleep

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and we can get

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it to sleep for 60 seconds or however much long you want to wait between

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running the script. So now if you hit run,

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you won't see that final code where it tells you that your program is done

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running.

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It's actually continuously running in the background and it's going to execute

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this code every 60 seconds.

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So as long as you have your computer on and this is running,

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then you can run this for a whole 24 hours. And I'll bet you

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at some point in the night,

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you'll get two or three emails telling you that the ISS is overhead.

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So all you have to monitor is just to switch your notifications on on your phone

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and when that email comes in to look up into the sky.

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So I hope you enjoyed building this project with me

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and I hope that you're going to be able to spot the ISS tonight.

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If you do, take a video and let us know what it looks like.