Reef Angel Forum

Is there any basic code to get sunrise/sunset. I'm not using the PWM expansion and not using dimmable lights, so for now just want to base my lighting schedule on sun up and sun down...worst case I can strip down the full weather example, but hoping someone had an existing simplified version to work with.

Thanks
Lee

You will need to talk to rufessor or strip his code down

No dimmable ballasts? Um...you best you can do is use the ReefAngel.Light and turn on actinic then daylight bulbs?.....Then reverse for sunset?

Yeah, I'll need to just use the Standard Light functions which is why I asked the question, I don't need to do all the calculations for weather / clouds, or PWM slopes to gently rise and set... but I would like my On time and Off time to be synchronized with SunRise and SunSet...

I looked at the code, and it should be pretty easy to get the info I need, I just may have to convert the time info coming from the functions to hour / minute notation in order to make an easy if / then statement...

If anyone has done this already, let me know, otherwise as soon as I get around to modifying the code, I will post it.

I'd love to see what you can come up with. We can eventually add this to the libs

Yeah, it looks like only a few functions actually came out of the libraries that rufessor used are needed and there are 2 functions used to calculate the SunRise and SunSet that could be made public. The key will be having them come out in a usable format to turn on / off the lights. Would be a similar use to the Moonphase() function hopefully.

Oh I get it! Yes I would love this as well!