Sky (Sun and Moon) Project

[randy]

Thanks. Appears there are significant differences when running under HS4 on Windows, which I didn't expect. I'll see if I can get something set up to test.

Your kludged together scripts worked fine for me. I am not passing any parameters, so it is using the default locations as it should. The moon graphics are not working, this also may be dur to differences in the way Windows HS4 handles paths. I'll look into that later.

Windows 10 Pro HS4 4.2.12.8

[randy]

I tried your last script and every minute it is creating new devices for Altitude, Azimuth, Sun, Moon, etc. It also didn't put them into any Floor or Room.

I am running the Moon-1 and Sun-1 scripts David posted in Events passing no parameters and they are working as expected.

[zwolfpack]

I tried your last script and every minute it is creating new devices for Altitude, Azimuth, Sun, Moon, etc. It also didn't put them into any Floor or Room.

I found that the issue you reported now occurs on HS4-Linux as well. It used to work (still does on HS3), but has since become broken.

The issue occurs during creation of the devices: the Floor/Room assignment and parent-to-child linking doesn't happen. Then on the next run, the previously created devices aren't found because of the missing Floor/Room ... so creates a new set ... over and over.

I was able to find an alternate method that works on HS4 (Linux), which is attached. (Also added to Sky-projects.zip/scripts-1 folder, in the original post).

Also rebuild the Moon images so all of them fit in a single post (#2). Reviewing the earlier instructions, it seemed likely that the images might not end up in the correct place on a Windows install. Simpler with all of them in one file.

[zwolfpack]

Your kludged together scripts worked fine for me. I am not passing any parameters, so it is using the default locations as it should. The moon graphics are not working, this also may be dur to differences in the way Windows HS4 handles paths. I'll look into that later.

Missed your post ...

In the moon image zip files folder names are 'Moon1' & 'Moon2', but they actually need to be combined into a single folder 'Moon' (under ./html/images/). I rebuilt the images so they would fit into a single post.

Interesting that you didn't encounter the same issue that pcgirl65 reported and I confirmed. I have the latest non-beta release on a Linux system.

Edit: looks like you don't have the Sun images loaded either. Those should be located in ./html/images/Sun/. Once you get the images in place, you should delete the Zodiac devices so those can get the value-graphics pairs set up properly.

[randy]

Missed your post ...

In the moon image zip files folder names are 'Moon1' & 'Moon2', but they actually need to be combined into a single folder 'Moon' (under ./html/images/). I rebuilt the images so they would fit into a single post.

Interesting that you didn't encounter the same issue that pcgirl65 reported and I confirmed. I have the latest non-beta release on a Linux system.

Edit: looks like you don't have the Sun images loaded either. Those should be located in ./html/images/Sun/. Once you get the images in place, you should delete the Zodiac devices so those can get the value-graphics pairs set up properly.

All fixed.

[pcgirl65]

This seems to be working now! Thank you! So I want to use this to lower the blinds when the sun gets to a certain point in the sky and it is shining into the windows. I guess I will need to watch it and see what the Azimuth number is when this happens. Is this correct?

[zwolfpack]

This seems to be working now! Thank you! So I want to use this to lower the blinds when the sun gets to a certain point in the sky and it is shining into the windows. I guess I will need to watch it and see what the Azimuth number is when this happens. Is this correct?

Great!

The Altitude and Azimuth numbers are what you are interested in: https://www.britannica.com/science/altitude-angular

I would think primarily altitude ... when less than some value, open the blinds.

Azimuth increases over the course of the day. 180 degrees around midday.

Cool site that might be helpful to visualize the variation over the course of the day/year: https://www.suncalc.org

[pcgirl65]

Thanks, that is an interesting site. You can see where the sun will be anytime of the year. Just what I was looking for. Now my blinds will close properly throughout the year instead of me having to keep adjusting the time.

[pistacheL0]

Thanks David. This is working great . Here I have a recurrent 5 minutes event that triggers both hs4 version scripts (on linux)

[prsmith777]

I just added this to my HS3 setup on windows 10.

Are the zodiac dates right? Maybe I don't understand exactly what they mean, but I thought sun was in Scorpio from Oct 23- Nov 21.

[zwolfpack]

Are the zodiac dates right? Maybe I don't understand exactly what they mean, but I thought sun was in Scorpio from Oct 23- Nov 21.

That's for the (astrological) "tropical" zodiac. The dates shown here are astronomical, calculated using IAU constellation boundaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac#Constellations

Astronomical date ranges change (slowly) over time.

[prsmith777]

Cool thanks.

[will40]

Great!

The Altitude and Azimuth numbers are what you are interested in: https://www.britannica.com/science/altitude-angular

I would think primarily altitude ... when less than some value, open the blinds.

Azimuth increases over the course of the day. 180 degrees around midday.

Cool site that might be helpful to visualize the variation over the course of the day/year: https://www.suncalc.org

zwolfpack very neat scripts, thank you. I have installed and all looks good. I set up a sample event to trigger on the Moon's altitude angle value shown but it did not trigger my event. I looked up the moon's altitude HS4 device information and the value is not what the device shows.

It seems the number is rounded which is totally understandable considering the math performed. The device's angle displayed is the devicestatus.

This is probably right in front of me and I am having a senior moment but how can I trigger on a devicestatus?

Thanks for your help!

[will40]

disregard my question. I should have just put some more thought into it before I reached out...this works fine for me.

This comes in very handy, thanks again.