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Sunset and sunrise

MarcelSpapensMarcelSpapens Member
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I can't get flows with sunset or sunrise to work. Can someone tell me which timetable Homey works with? 
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  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Same here - it's pretty difficult to troubleshoot since you have one opportunity every 24 hours :)

    How would you debug a flow with sunrise/sunset in them? And what is the difference between start and end of a sunrise/sunset?

    Also, is there a way to create an offset to those? Say, turn the lights on at sunset + 30 mins?
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    edited February 2016
    Before my Homey became bricked, and still is, I couldn't trigger a flow with sunrise/sunset.
    You can may be make the trigger with something else and testing in the ...and... column against sunrise/sunset time.
    Athom is working at it. Even to put time before those sun events.
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Thanks - I'll wait for a change log then. Did you not manage to unbrick your Homey with a bootable Linux image?
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    Here no stuff to unbricked my Homey.
    Then the flu attacked me for the 2nd time so to see someone in the neighbourhood is not a good idea for now.
  • ErikVanDongenErikVanDongen Member
    https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/182
  • GeurtDijkerGeurtDijker Member

    Testing the trigger will be easier when you "Log" ... so I created 4 workflows: (Sunrise/set Start/end) with a push notification... 
    Testing results in time reported 21:23 (every time I tried ;-) )

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    Will see result today / and report here this evening! 

    Regards, Geurt

  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Where on the planet does a sunrise or sunset start or end at 21:23? :)
  • aloftaloft Member
    21:23 (and December 31 , 2015 for that matter ) are standard times in Homey, for one reason or another. If you make a flow where every 10 seconds the date or time is spoken, the first date/time spoken by Homey are those dates. The second time it reports date or time, it will be the correct date/time. 
  • GeurtDijkerGeurtDijker Member
    MartijnDeRhoter said:
    Where on the planet does a sunrise or sunset start or end at 21:23? :)
    Testing the workflow resulted in 21:23 ;-) every time.
    but it didn't trigger this morning :'(
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    I think it's not working in 0.8.17, fixed in 0.8.18.
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    For checking all the local times for the sun events: http://www.suncalc.org

  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Is that where Homey gets the times from?
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    Not that I know Martijn but is is a good reference for testing.
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Can anyone on 0.8.20 (or later :)) confirm if sunset / sunrise cards work?

    I can't seem to get a sunset trigger anything.
  • mruitermruiter Member
    edited February 2016
    8.20 and still none of my 8 sunset / sunrise flows work.
    I still pis naast de pot because the lights dont go on.
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    I've updated the issue on GitHub. I'd really love to get this working!
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    If the sun events still not trigger a flow will that be very, very disappointed. It should be fix in 0.8.7 but it was not.
    Give after that version a lot of tips what was needed for a good functional use, such as time before the events.
    :'(
  • JesperJesper Member
    I also like the flow cards sunset and sunrise to work but for now you can also use IFTTT recipes in combination with the Homey for this.
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    edited February 2016
    Good point! I'll give it a go, never thought of that as a workaround - thanks!
    Edit: just created the IFTTT webhook and used a trigger from the Weather channel, as per the instructions in

    18:15 is going to be exciting today! Don't forget to configure the weather channel with the location of your Homey, unless you enjoy your lights switching on at weird times.
  • AppieAppie Member
    Using IFTTT doesn't solve the issue that you want to have the lights on half an hour before sunset. Any ideas how to solve this?
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    You could configure the weather channel with a location on the planet where the sun sets half an hour earlier than your location - not very elegant, but it would work. By clicking on http://sunrisesunsetmap.com/ I found Berlin to do just that :)

    The actual Sunset card wouldn't solve this either, we'd need the Sunset time as a variable and then modify it.

  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Sunset using IFTTT Weather channel works! Sunrise didn't today, but that might very well be my flow's fault, not IFTTT.
  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    Sunrise now also works! Very pleased with Homey and IFTTT. For people looking for a single button to integrate with their Homeys, look at the Yo app (https://www.justyo.co/) - it has an IFTTT channel so you can trigger a flow with it.
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    In this thread, from May 2015, a lot of tips game in.
    https://forum.athom.com/discussion/249/input-required-flows-with-time/p1 

    Not only about the sun-evens but a delay timer came then all in the picture.
    It is at least a little strange that both has not developed in full function.

  • MartijnDeRhoterMartijnDeRhoter Member
    You could delay a sunset trigger by 23,5 hours to have it kick off an action flow half an hour earlier the next day :)
  • DaneeDeKruyffDaneeDeKruyff Member
    I agree with @TheoDeKoning ;

    And I think we shouldn't have only sunset/sunrise, but also the twilight times, that info is available:
    (Taken from another thread)
    Beginners question here: can I do a GET JSON request and use the results as variables in a different flow?

    Example: 

    This url gets me sunset/rise info: http://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=52.6972155&lng=5.164657. 

    I'm able to create the action card, but where are the results stored?

    This comes back using Postman:

    {
      "results": {
        "sunrise": "6:28:00 AM",
        "sunset": "5:15:44 PM",
        "solar_noon": "11:51:52 AM",
        "day_length": "10:47:44",
        "civil_twilight_begin": "5:53:37 AM",
        "civil_twilight_end": "5:50:06 PM",
        "nautical_twilight_begin": "5:13:59 AM",
        "nautical_twilight_end": "6:29:45 PM",
        "astronomical_twilight_begin": "4:34:04 AM",
        "astronomical_twilight_end": "7:09:40 PM"
      },
      "status": "OK"
    }

    How can I use things like "civil_twilight_begin" in a different flow?
  • TheoDeKoningTheoDeKoning Member
    ....
    And I think we shouldn't have only sunset/sunrise, but also the twilight times, that info is available:
    ....
    You have sunrise starts and sunrise ends card.
    If you want the sunrise time you take the sunrise ends card. For twilight the sunrise starts card.

    This is also for the sunset cards.


  • DaneeDeKruyffDaneeDeKruyff Member
    TheoDeKoning said:
    ....
    And I think we shouldn't have only sunset/sunrise, but also the twilight times, that info is available:
    ....
    You have sunrise starts and sunrise ends card.
    If you want the sunrise time you take the sunrise ends card. For twilight the sunrise starts card.

    This is also for the sunset cards.


    Great! thanks!
  • GeurtDijkerGeurtDijker Member
    Today for the first time the Sunset flows triggered after my update to 0.8.24  this afternoon.

    Location The Netherlands - near Utrecht.
    This one Bug looks also smashed....

       
  • mruitermruiter Member
    oooohhhh yes. been waiting for this since the start
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