Showing Sunrise and Sunset at the GUI

leader21

this workaround is deprecated. See below post for information !!

Here’s a solution to display sunrise and sunset at the GUI

so first create a script in your home/pi directory called sunrise.sh :

#!/bin/bash
# sunrise.sh
# shellscript to extract sunrise and sunset from yahoo weather
# insert your correct location code at w=xxxxxx.
# you can get it at http://weather.yahoo.com and enter your zip or city

sunrise=$(curl -s http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=644719 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $2}'|{ date -f - +%R; })
sunset=$(curl -s http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=644719 | grep astronomy | awk -F\" '{print $4}'|{ date -f - +%R; })

echo "Aufgang $sunrise Uhr, Untergang $sunset Uhr"

short translation : Aufgang = sunrise, Untergang = sunset, Uhr = o’clock

then you can create the device in the config.json like this :

    {
	  "id": "sonnenstand",
	  "name": "Sonne",
	  "class": "ShellSensor",
	  "attributeName": "time",
	  "attributeType": "string",
	  "attributeUnit": "",
	  "command": "sudo bash /home/pi/sunrise.sh",
	  "interval": 3600000
	}

the update interval is every hour. so if you reboot the pi before midnight it will update the sunrise/sunset in a relative short time.

P.S.: here’s how to get your location code w=
go to http://weather.yahoo.com/ and insert zip or city, hit search weather and read your location code above at the url. simple, isn’t it

leader21

there is a sunrise device available at the sunrise plugin now.

you can use it like that

   {
      "id": "sunrise-device",
      "class": "SunriseDevice",
      "name": "Suntime",
      "latitude": 60.800788,
      "longitude": 21.409228,
      "attributes": [
        {
          "name": "sunrise",
          "label": "Sunrise"
        },
        {
          "name": "sunset",
          "label": "Sunset"
        }
      ]
   },