MMM-Sunrise-Sunset

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

vbloke

https://github.com/prydonian/MMM-Sunrise-Sunset

Made a fairly big update using a different API that needs a free key.
https://ipgeolocation.io/signup.html

It now gives you moonrise and moonset times and day length.

henry2man

I tried this module but activating this causes my MM to show nothing. I had no error messages on MM logs (in my case, a docker server-only instance) and nor on my Chrome console.

In other words it looks that the IPGeo free key expires in 1 day…

vbloke

@henry2man the API is limited to 1000 calls per day. It doesn’t appear to expire after a day.

Can you post the config for the module?

it should look like this:

    {
      module: "MMM-Sunrise-Sunset",
      position: "bottom_bar",
      config: {
		apiKey: "API_KEY",
		latitude: "123.123",
		longitude: "23.456",
		layout: "inline"
      }
    },

henry2man

I removed the config but seemed like yours. I followed the README from master. I’ll try again later, but also I’ve reviewed this API

https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=36.7201600&lng=-4.4203400&formatted=0

It has enough information and seems to be free.

What do you think?

vbloke

@henry2man that’s the one I was using before, but it required a lot of work to get the time in your local time zone as all times were returned as UTC.

The new API uses your location to format the time automatically.