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@rmonkey
I wrote a bash script that will take lat and lon, do an API call to Openweather, and get the sunset and sunrise times. then it will schedule a sunrise program and a sunset program to run via ‘at’. You can have +/- offsets for sunrise/sunset and you can just have a settime. So what I’m doing is doing api calls to MM at 10pm to turn off my background images, and then dim the screen via the remote api. then at 15 min after sunrise it puts it back to normal.

I have never published to github, but probably will at some point. Do you think this would be something folks would want? it is not a module. it does require jq and at to be installed on the linux system.

@rmonkey Thanks. I will get it published, don’t know when, but will get it published

@MichMich I only found out about MagicMirror two months ago, and in that time I have setup four MagicMirrors in frames (I got prefab’ed), two MagicMirrors in Dockers, and one running on our main TV. One of them is going in our RV, with GPS, that will automatically update weather, weather warnings, tell you where you are at, and turn on and off the frame at sunset/sunrise, at your current location. I have one with my elderly father, where we, can send pictures to the frame, and it can show him the weather. Playing with MM forced me to do my first pull request on Github to fix someones module. lol

I just want to thank you on your work on MagicMirror and how much pleasure it has brought to our family.

@sdetweil So I ened up using a Yo-Link Plug, and it’s API. I have my monitor plugged into the Yo-Link Plug. I wrote a script that sets a delay time off to 1 minute for the monitor, and then 10 seconds later does a sudo power off command. So the pi shuts down gracefuly and then the monitor. The pi is powered from the usb connector on the monitor.

Great build! I like it!