Location.dusk\dawn

Developer Programs
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Hi All,

Since 20th Dec my dusk\dawn automation is broken. I finally checked it out and found that these methods that I wrote years ago always returns 20th Dec, not the current day:

def getSunrise() {
Date sunrise = readDate(location.currentValue(“sunriseTime”), “yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS’Z’”)
return sunrise
}

def getSunset() {
Date dusk = readDate(location.currentValue(“sunsetTime”), “yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS’Z’”)
return dusk
}

Does anyone know what’s changed and how I fix it?

Thanks!

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Tagging @nayelyz

3

If you look at your Installed SmartApps in the IDE, do you still have Weather Station running? It used to come under Hello Home! but should now be under Smart Lighting.

4

Hey @taasss, can you share the SmartApp source code, please?

5

The app is 1,800 lines of code that will be hard to understand, but I can post if you like.

Here’s an abridged version of what I’m doing:

def go() {
def dawn = generateDate(getSunrise(), 30)

runOnce(dawn, “handleDuskDawn”)
}

def getSunset() {
Date dusk = readDate(location.currentValue(“sunsetTime”), “yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSS’Z’”)
return dusk
}

def generateDate(Date time, minsOffset) {
Date timeBeforeTime = new Date(time.time + (minsOffset.toInteger() * 60 * 1000))

if (timeBeforeTime < new Date())
{
    timeBeforeTime = timeBeforeTime + 1;
}

return timeBeforeTime

}

What I really need is a new way to get dusk\dawn, then I can rewrite the method…

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@orangebucket - Yes I did used to have it, but deleted it after selling my Netatmo. Is that how this property got set?

7

Yes, it sets the location sunrise, sunset, sunsetTime and sunriseTime attributes used by legacy apps. Not to be confused with any other app of the same name.

I believe it gets created automatically if you create a Smart Lighting automation using sunrise and sunset, so hopefully that allows it to be recreated if deliberately deleted.

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What @orangebucket said helps (thanks BTW), you can use a virtual device in the Smart Lightning app if you don’t want to use a real one. I don’t know how complex is your SmartApp automation, but you can also use the Rules API to trigger some actions with sunrise, sunset, etc.