Dusk and Dawn times (possibly in wunderground plugin)

[garryjw]

Hi

It would be really useful to be able to get dawn and dusk times. I'm pretty sure Weather Underground have these in the astronomy section but I couldn't see them in the plug-in.

Thanks
Garry

[Kalle]

I'm not sure, but this feature exist in the WU api: http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=data/astronomy

maybe you can use it with the WUnder.GetCustom action.

[jitterjames]

Hi

It would be really useful to be able to get dawn and dusk times. I'm pretty sure Weather Underground have these in the astronomy section but I couldn't see them in the plug-in.

Thanks
Garry

Sounds reasonable.  Putting it on the list! 

[garryjw]

Thanks James that is great. At this rate I won't need any other Home Control than VoxCommando. :-)

[jitterjames]

Here is new version of the Weather Underground plugin with astronomical variables (attached).

I will include this in the next alpha release, but there is no reason you should have to wait for that, so, just replace the appropriate file.

The version of the attached plugin dll is 0.2.1.0

[garryjw]

Fabulous - many thanks.

[jitterjames]

Just for the sake of "whateverness" here is another way to do it with scrape.  Admitedly it might not work the same for everyone, or google might do something to break it, so the Wunder method is probably still better, as long as our api key keeps working.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<!--VoxCommando 1.9.1.9-->
<command id="166" name="scrape sunrise" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
  <action>
    <cmdType>scrape</cmdType>
    <params>
      <param>https://www.google.ca/search?q=when+is+sunrise%20in%20Morin-Heights</param>
    </params>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>Results.RegEx</cmdType>
    <params>
      <param>td.class="r"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(.*?)&lt;</param>
    </params>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
  <action>
    <cmdType>OSD.ShowText</cmdType>
    <params>
      <param>{Match.1}</param>
    </params>
    <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
  </action>
</command>

[jitterjames]

By the way, I think percentIlluminated refers to how full the moon is.  In any case it does not have anything to do with sunshine or weather, it is some kind of a moon-related value for sure.

[garryjw]

I guess if I was really clever I could work out when to turn the lights on by checking to see if the sky was clear and whether there was a lot of illumination from the moon. 

[jitterjames]

Dunno, but I do know this:

When there is a full moon you want to close the bedroom blinds at night.

But then again you might want to do that anyway...
Either way I'm doing it the old fashioned way.

[garryjw]

Cool idea. Haven't managed to automate my curtains yet. I am testing auto lighting coming on at dusk.