MMM-Sunrise-Sunset

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.

henry2man

@vbloke In this link there is a simple way to get a ISO 8601 into your local timezone --> https://stackoverflow.com/a/31453408

var utcDate = '2011-06-29T16:52:48.000Z';  // ISO-8601 formatted date returned from server
var localDate = new Date(utcDate);

api.sunrise-sunset.org can return ISO 8601 dates using

formatted=0

parameter…

If date parsing is the major issue & this solution works I think this approach is simpler. Even you can default the URL and simply configure lat/long & style (inline/list)

Just my 2 cents…