Sunrise and Sunset time info Control page

It's not specially an Indigo 6 question but does anybody know how I can get
the Sunrise and Sunset time info in a Control page?

Thanks for the help and kind regards,

John

Here's what I do:

Create variables for sunrise and sunset, then make a trigger with the following:
If variable isDaylight changes, always, execute this applescript

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tell application "IndigoServer"
   
   set value of variable "sunrise" to "Sunrise: " & (weekday of (calculate sunrise) as string) & " " & (time string of (calculate sunrise) as string)
   
   
   set value of variable "sunset" to "Sunset: " & (weekday of (calculate sunset) as string) & " " & (time string of (calculate sunset) as string)
   
end tell

Then create two new objects for the variables on your control page and you're good to go! You could run the script once manually to get the initial values, then it will automatically update every sunrise/sunset.

Here's my control page currently (always changing)

Hi,

Thanks for the help. Nice control panel!

I made a new Script (and the 2 Variables and Trigger) but I got an error;

error "IndigoServer got an error: Can’t set value of variable \"sunrise\" to \"Sunrise: Tuesday 08:27:03\"." number -10006 from value of variable "sunrise"

When I run this script manually, I got this error in AppleScript and the Variables are not changing.
Do you know what this is?

Thanks for the help and kind regards,

John

It works!
Sorry for my stupid question but the Variable Name is case sensitive....
(When the name is lower case (sunrise), it works!

Kind regards,

John

Glad you got it working!

Diggin the control page man! Nice work!

Thanks! It changes about one a week because our HA system is still growing, but it's getting close to where I want it visually now.

I don't know that these pages ever get "done"... but I like yours. Very clean and can see most stuff at a glance.

Hi,

I have a similar setup but have assigned the variables to the 2 objects in such a way that the next event ( either sunrise or sunset) is shown on the left and the event after that on the right.
The script is run by a trigger set when the isDaylight changes.

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tell application "IndigoServer"
   if the (value of variable "isDaylight") is "false" then
      
      set value of variable "LeftSun" to "Sunrise: " & (weekday of (calculate sunrise) as string) & " " & (time string of (calculate sunrise) as string)
      set value of variable "RightSun" to "Sunset: " & (weekday of (calculate sunset) as string) & " " & (time string of (calculate sunset) as string)
      
   else if the (value of variable "isDaylight") is "true" then
      
      set value of variable "LeftSun" to "Sunset: " & (weekday of (calculate sunset) as string) & " " & (time string of (calculate sunset) as string)
      set value of variable "RightSun" to "Sunrise: " & (weekday of (calculate sunrise) as string) & " " & (time string of (calculate sunrise) as string)
      
   end if
end tell

I would like to add icons showing sunrise and sunset but haven't yet found a way of depicting these so that it is immediately evident which is which.
Animated gifs are probably the only way to go!?!

regards

Tim

Good idea Tim! I may modify my setup to this too

Here's a couple icons that are sized for your page if you like.

Carl

Here's a couple icons that are sized for your page if you like.

Thanks!

Not a biggie but the time displayed on my Control Page is off an hour (no doubt due to DST)

tell application "IndigoServer"

set value of variable "sunrise" to "Sunrise: " & " " & (time string of (calculate sunrise) as string)

set value of variable "sunset" to "Sunset: " & " " & (time string of (calculate sunset) as string)

end tell

Is there a way to easily correct this?

[jay (support)]

I'm not quite following: I just tested the calculate sunrise/sunset and it came out correctly. Is it those two times that are incorrect for you? What are the time/date settings of your Mac? You need to make sure that you have the correct city selected in the Time Zone tab of the Date & Time system preference. We use that setting to calculate the next sunrise/sunset unless you override it in the Indigo Preferences by specifying your latitude/longitude.

[EDIT] You may also want to restart the Indigo server - I suppose it may have failed to update the last time DST changed for you.

Weird. It shows the correct time in the Indigo Preferences panel (Sunrise at 6:46AM) but the display on my Control Page still show sunrise at 7:33:46AM. The two times aren't even in sync.

Could my script be picking up the location from somewhere else? Another location??