sebastiantombs
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The change in sunrise/sunset times can be a PITA. Just sayin'.
That really depends on your latitude. When I lived in Lagos, Nigeria sunrise and sunset varied only 18 minutes over the whole year.Before winter and after, each month loses, or gains like an hour of light. The rest of the years is all good.
I lived there for five years. Miss it and the expat life. Never a dull moment. Best job I ever had. Made some great friends their from all over the world. Makes one appreciate what we have here in the USA.it's better than Lagos.
It's a pity there's no where to pull sunset / sunrise times into the software from. Most weather reports contain these and I'm sure somewhere academic or meteriological will publish a table of times for the entire year. Even if you could only retreive the date daily from a local weather site, that could be sufficient to say set sunset - 1 hour, and sunrise + 1 hour for change overs (or whatever time you required). Where you come unstuck is bad waether as often then it goes dark and hour or two early.The change in sunrise/sunset times can be a PITA. Just sayin'.
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Read my last post (#1,121). Sunwait can do all of that. You just feed it your lat/long and it will get sunrise/sunset for any location on earth. You can then have it execute commands based on those times or add an offset to them + or -. You can even have it set to activate from civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight and even angle of the sun above/below the horizon.It's a pity there's no where to pull sunset / sunrise times into the software from. Most weather reports contain these and I'm sure somewhere academic or meteriological will publish a table of times for the entire year. Even if you could only retreive the date daily from a local weather site, that could be sufficient to say set sunset - 1 hour, and sunrise + 1 hour for change overs (or whatever time you required). Where you come unstuck is bad waether as often then it goes dark and hour or two early.
That is why we have the sunrise and sunset "app".
I use the following BASH script to do that on my Synology NAS. It runs every day and calculates sunrise-20min and sunset+20min. It then sleeps until sunset+19Min. There is other code in the script which changes the start/end time for night mode. On one of my cameras I manually set "Normal" mode at sunset+20 and then at midnight another script switches it to night mode - this to deal with landscape lighting that runs until midnight. With minor modification it should work on any flavor of Linux (including MacOS)It's a pity there's no where to pull sunset / sunrise times into the software from. Most weather reports contain these and I'm sure somewhere academic or meteriological will publish a table of times for the entire year. Even if you could only retreive the date daily from a local weather site, that could be sufficient to say set sunset - 1 hour, and sunrise + 1 hour for change overs (or whatever time you required). Where you come unstuck is bad waether as often then it goes dark and hour or two early.