Sunrise and Sunset plugin

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ok stopped working here today.
pls. give us some time to arrange a good solution.
all we need is already available and must be put together at the pimatic-sunrise plugin.

a new version of the sunrise plugin is available with the possibility to insert a sunrise device.
check the readme for more information and sample device.

Awesome, thanks! Just updated and added the device, works great!

Updated and added the new device without a hitch! Great work! 👍

Thank you very much!! works like a charm!

Has been implemented in the new version of the pimatic sunrise plugin

https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic-sunrise

you can use it like follows :

{
      "id": "sunrise-1",
      "class": "SunriseDevice",
      "name": "Sunrise",
      "latitude": 52.5072111,
      "longitude": 13.1449592,
      "attributes": [
        {
          "name": "sunrise",
          "label": "Sunrise Time"
        },
        {
          "name": "sunset",
          "label": "Sunset Time"
        }
      ]
}

@leader21 Working perfect! Thanks for that!

Brgs HeinMueck

I use the plugin since quite a long time and i´m really happy with it but i have a small issue that is not perfect for me:

the time is displayed with AM / PM and not in the 24h format ?!?

I probably missed some configuration options, but can find no mistake…

Maybe you have an good idea?

Thanks

@johnny11 said in Sunrise and Sunset plugin:

I probably missed some configuration options, but can find no mistake…

You need to set the locale on your Raspberry. You can do this using sudo raspi-config. Choose option “Internationalization Options” and then “Change Locale” on the next page. For example, for Germany, use locale id de_DE.UTF-8

oh man… shame on me!
that was actually the easiest solution and it didn´t came to my mind!

thanks a lot!

Hi,

I’ve found another solution.
When auto starting Pimatic

1. Stop Pimatic (service pimatic stop)
2. edit the file /etc/init.d/pimatic; add the line “export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8” to the file:

if [ “$1” = “start” ] || [ “$1” = “stop” ] || [ “$1” = “restart” ] || [ “$1” = “status” ]
then
export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
pimatic.js $1
exit "$?"
else
echo “Usage: service pimatic {start|stop|status|restart}” >&2
exit 3
fi

3. Start Pimatic (service pimatic start)

Best Regards,
Erik

Yesterday i updated my system to node v10.16.3 and made a complete new installation of pimatic witch my old config. Now the sunrise plugin shows the time only in AM/PM format. The local id of my raspberry pi is de_DE.UTF-8 and also the string “export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8” in the /etc/init.d/pimatic does not fix this issue.
Who can help me? My rules based on the sunrise times are not working correct.

Regards daice

Did you try to set the localTimezone in the sunrise plugin and/or changed the local timezone in the rpi?

I tried DE and Europe/Berlin for local timezone. Both did not work. Also i set the local timezone with “sudo raspi-config” to de_DE.UTF-8 but no success.

It should be enough to set the locale in the rpi and don’t use the timezone fields in the sunrise device.
In raspi-config you select Localization Options -> Change Timezone -> Europe -> Berlin

That works in my rpi3b+ with stretch

Until yesterday it worked for me also. But now it does not help.

@daice said in Sunrise and Sunset plugin:

Did you check the locale with timedatectl. This is the result on my rpi

      Local time: do 2020-02-20 19:33:58 CET
  Universal time: do 2020-02-20 18:33:58 UTC
        RTC time: n/a
       Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam (CET, +0100)
 Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no

@bertreb said in Sunrise and Sunset plugin:

timedatectl

Local time: Do 2020-02-20 19:42:03 CET
  Universal time: Do 2020-02-20 18:42:03 UTC
        RTC time: n/a
       Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CET, +0100)
 Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no

Ok, thats looks ok, deeper digging is needed
I will test it also on a node 10 setup and try to find the cause. Somewhere tomorrow.