Get Daily Weather Reports Delivered To Your Phone Using Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps

Logic App is a cloud-based service that allows us to react to an event in one service (such as SharePoint online) and do something with the data from that event in another service (such as Twitter). It makes it practical and simple for business processes. The users build workflows that automatically perform some business tasks and processes across applications and services. We can connect our business-critical apps and services with Azure Logic Apps, automating our workflows without writing a single line of code.

Before reading this article, please go through some important article links mentioned below.

Here, we need to connect to MS Weather and Nexmo.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Azure Account
Nexmo Account

Follow the below steps to build a Workflow using a template.

Step 1

Log into https://portal.azure.com/.
In the dashboard, choose to create a resource and click on Integration. Now, select "Logic App".

Step 2

Enter the name you want to assign to the logic. Select the subscription and resource group where you organize the related resources and the location where your logic app is stored. Then, click on "Create".
Here is the dashboard. Click "Logic App Designer".

Step 3. Now, click "Blank Logic App".

Blank Logic App

Step 4

Sign in to Nexmo Account from https://www.nexmo.com/.
Create an account.
Get into the Dashboard.
Choose the SMS and note down the API key and Secret key.

Step 5. Configure the MSN Weather and Nexmo.

Search for MSN Weather in the search bar.
Choose the Triggers.
Next, enter your current Location, Region, Country, Longitude, and latitude. Then, set the time interval and frequency for checking the workflow as one minute.

Step 6

Next, search for Nexmo.
Then, choose the action for the workflow.
Next, paste the connection name, API key, and API Secret from Nexmo.
Then, choose the fields you want. Enter the location, phone number, and SMS format text.
The final workflow will be like this.

Step 7. Now, let us save and run the workflow.

Save

Output

Once the climate changes in your entered location, you will get an SMS notification.

Summary

I hope you understand how to get a weather report notification to your phone number using the Azure Logic App. Stay tuned for more Logic App articles.

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Prabu Elavarasan7y ago
How frequent is this SMS gets delivered to the phone? BTW, by default most of the smartphones having Weather app, or you can just google it in the phone's browser it will show us the entire weather forecast for the day and future dates as well. So what makes difference among these options compare to yours?