MMM-Sunrise-Sunset

vbloke

I’ve created a module that displays the local sunrise, sunset and solar noon times. maybe it’ll be useful for people.

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Any offers to make it better are gratefully received!

buzzkc

Looks nice. I may add that to my bedside touch screen…Thanks!

mrdenmark

just added it,thanks for your work, a couple of issues i found-

it doesn’t seem to account for southern hemisphere or timezones or something as i get sunrise at 5.36 pm sunset at 7.23 am and solar noon at 12.30 am,also,in my config inline or list makes no difference,-its always inline.
heres my config-{
module: “MMM-Sunrise-Sunset”,
position: “top_left”,
config: {
latitude: “-44.57”,
longitude: “168.50”,
Layout: “list”,
}
},

vbloke

@mrdenmark it appears that the API doesn’t like the Southern Hemisphere…

http://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=-44.57&lng=168.50&date=today

Is that config exactly as it appears in your config file? layout should be all lowercase.

mrdenmark

@vbloke i changed the config file to lowercase,that fixed the layout
as for the api?not sure what the options are,i’ll see if i can an alternative,
thanks for your help

vbloke

@mrdenmark the API returns all dates in UTC, so I may look at putting a time zone offset option in the config, or if you feel confident doing that yourself, feel free to try.

mrdenmark

would it be possible to add a line with the day length?i’m not sure how to go about adding a time offset,i’ll do some research

vbloke

@mrdenmark if you update the module now, it should account for the timezone if you set it in your config. From your latitude/longitude, yours (I think) would be “Pacific/Auckland”.

Try this:

{
  module: "MMM-Sunrise-Sunset",
  position: "top_left",
  config: {
	latitude: "-44.57",
	longitude: "168.50",
	timezone: "Pacific/Auckland",
	layout: "list"
  }
},

mrdenmark

worked,cheers!

sdetweil

@vbloke you can get the timezone from the lat/lng

http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#timezone

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16086962/how-to-get-a-time-zone-from-a-location-using-latitude-and-longitude-coordinates