Sunrise and Sunset plugin

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Is it me or is the sunrise plugin not working anymore?
Since a few days Pimatic only shows a blank space were there used to be the sunrise and sunset time.

When i try run the sunrise.sh script manually, i also get no output.
I did not change anything in the script. Am i the only one with this issue?
My sunrise.sh script uses this line to obtain the correct sunrise and sunset time:

sunrise=$(curl -s http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=727612 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $2}'|{ date -f - +%R; })

i’ll have a look into this. some other users reported this issue.
comming back later with more information.

edit : ok, i see - the yahoo api changed. now you need oAuth1 to use the service.
will have a look for another solution.

@leader21 said:

edit : ok, i see - the yahoo api changed. now you need oAuth1 to use the service.
will have a look for another solution.

Could this be extracted from the openweather plugin?
It’s already provided in the API look here.

Maybe Oliver Schneider could have a look at this (i don’t know his username, so couldn’t tag him…)

Rather than using openweather, I think we should extend pimatic-sunrise to provide a device with the desired sunrise and sunset times. It could also provide more times like “solarNoon” which might be interesting for PV applications. See https://github.com/mourner/suncalc#reference for details. The question is whether or not this would be required for more than one location, as pimatic-sunrise currently only provides a single location.

I would welcome more location.
Example:
One location for Pimatic position (lighting control, etc.). And the next location for the control of lighting in the aquarium, according to the length of day for example, somewhere in Brazil (plus offset added via rules).

@wutu OK, I see, Light control for the aquarium is an interesting and valid use case. It should not be too difficult to provide for multiple locations.

agree with the sunrise plugin solution
so we would have a pimatic native solution.

I just wrote a python script to really calculate the sunrise/sunset time based on your location (latitude, longitude). There is a complete set of formulas to do that.
It removes all dependencies from (commercial) sites.
I can (try to) rewrite it to javascript. Hopefully someone else can rewrite it to coffeescript for a plugin.
in that case you could make multiple devices; each with its own lat/lon.

Currently it is a quick&dirty script.

Definitely a +1 for a device to display sunrise/sunset times provided by suncalc!

Should be a feature request I would vote for.

My script doesn’t work correctly. Some locations are OK and some are not.
Don’t know why though.
It is based on http://williams.best.vwh.net/sunrise_sunset_algorithm.htm

@Harry-van-der-Wolf said:

It removes all dependencies from (commercial) sites.
I can (try to) rewrite it to javascript.

I think there is no need for rewriting this as pimatic-sunrise already has access to the the appropriate times using the suncalc package (see my earlier post).

@Heizelmann said:

Should be a feature request I would vote for.

See https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1605/extend-pimatic-sunrise-with-device-type-to-provide-sunrise-and-sunset-times

I mentioned 2 posts above that my script doesn’t deliver alwyas the same times as yahoo.
I now compared it with 3 online services: They all have the same inaccuracies.

@mr.smith meanwhile you can try http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=727612

@Heizelmann
That does the trick!
Just change both of the url in the sunrise.sh script accordingly. I changed the description of my howto also.
But nevertheless a native solution is preferred

@Heizelmann said:

http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=727612

Thank you very much, that did indeed did the trick!

Too bad. The url now gives :

Could Not Connect

Description: Could not connect to the requested server host.

for me it’s still working, but let’s see for how long …

Same here, the URL doesn’t seem to work anymore…