Hi everyone, I’m new to SmartThings. In my home I need to know the position of the sun to be able to open or close the blinds and dusk light automations. I wrote two DHs that determine the position of the sun as well as sun times (sunrise, sunset, etc.) and I am making it available in case anyone el…

Hello @Baranauskas , Thank you for sharing! For this use case, another option could be to create a SmartApp , so you wouldn’t need to create child devices and you can adapt your functions to get the times of sunset, sunrise, etc. The Schedules endpoint would help you with the interval to refresh th…

Thanks for sharing! I’ve tried suncalc implementation with different community and own smart apps to control my iblinds, but your implementation as a DH is the most elegant and flexible. I’ve implemented logic of closing/opening the blinds depending on sun altitude and azimuth in webcore within min…

Sun Edge Drivers can be found in GitHub or ST Edge Channel or Channel Invitation

@Baranauskas Any issues with the Sun v3.1? It was working for me until recently when the Sun Parts of the Day don’t calculate correctly. I am also using Sun Virtual Device and it is accurate.

This looks very cool, but I am confused by the Terminology. In a smartthings context,“Device Type Handlers” (DTHs) were written in Groovy and are part of the old architecture. They can no longer be added to an account. “Edge Drivers” are written in lua and are part of the new architecture. You ap…

Once you install the Edge Driver, it creates a device with the Sun information. I hope that helps as I’m new to this and not as familiar with the terminology you mention.

[image] surils: Once you install the Edge Driver, it creates a device with the Sun information. I hope that helps as I’m new to this and not as familiar with the terminology you mention. Ok, I’ve updated the tags with the right terminology so this will show up on the current quick browse list…

Thank you for the clarification! I’m learning this new architecture slowly but surely.

Thank you so much for creating and sharing this. But I seem to be running into an issue when trying to set the location latitude in V3.1 The dialog disables the save button as soon as I enter the second number after the decimal. 34.06 specifically in my case. Same thing happens for the longitude 117…

First of all, thanks for the driver, especially the home angle option. It would be great to have the calculations bundled in an app or website where the user could enter geolocation, home angle from north, date and time. That way I could select the altitude and home azimuth to use in my routine bas…

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I realise this is an old post but if someone still looking for a solution, check this out: [ST EDGE] Sun Position — Edge Driver for Sun-Aware Automations

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