MMM-Sunrise-Sunset

[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

[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…

[Mykle1]

@vbloke

This is right out of my MMM-SunRiseSet module.

Feel free to use it if you like. :thumbsup:

// sunrise set to local time using moment
   var sunrise = document.createElement("div");
   sunrise.classList.add("small", "bright", "sunrise");
   sunrise.innerHTML = "Sunrise is at " + moment(SunRiseSet.sunrise).local().format("h:mm a") + " &nbsp &nbsp "
+ "Sunset is at " + moment(SunRiseSet.sunset).local().format("h:mm a");
   wrapper.appendChild(sunrise);

[pugsly]

@henry2man
I am having the same problem, whenever I put it in my config the display is blank.

[sdetweil]

@pugsly not in config… you have to edit the actual module code

[pugsly]

@sdetweil Not sure I know what you mean. When I put this in my config the screen is all blank:

    {
        module: "MMM-Sunrise-Sunset",
        position: "top_right",
        header: "Sunrise",
        config: {
            latitude: "39.2907",
            longitude: "-75.6344",
            apikey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
            layout: "inline"
                }
    },

[sdetweil]

@pugsly open the developers window on your blank screen MM, using ctrl-shift-i on the keyboard… select the tab labeled console and scroll up to find any errors

[pugsly]

@sdetweil

Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined
at Class.updateSun (MMM-Sunrise-Sunset.js:33)
at Class.start (MMM-Sunrise-Sunset.js:12)
at startModules (loader.js:55)
at loader.js:40
at HTMLLinkElement.stylesheet.onload (loader.js:200)

[sdetweil]

@pugsly said in MMM-Sunrise-Sunset:

Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined

this module depends on jquery library being installed for this module, but its not…,

I am working on instructions for you… hang on

do

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Sunrise-Sunset
npm install jquery
# note the trailing dot (.) on the next line
cp node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js .

then start your mirror again