Use sunset and sunrise time in lua

[salvation]

Hi,

I was wondering how I could use the sunset and sunrise time in LUA? I've found the timeofday variable daytime, nighttime and sunsetinminutes. But I'm looking to use the time. Just like the option in blocky or the time returned in the json call /json.htm?type=command&param=getSunRiseSet

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{
   "ServerTime" : "Sep 30 2013 17:15:21",
   "Sunrise" : "07:38:00",
   "Sunset" : "19:16:00",
   "status" : "OK",
   "title" : "getSunRiseSet"
}

Anybody know how to achieve this?

[jvdz]

This is an example which will run at sunset - 10 minutes:

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commandArray = {}
	-- get current time
	timenow = os.date("*t")
	minutesnow = timenow.min + timenow.hour * 60
	-- test for sunset - 10 minutes
	if (minutesnow == timeofday['SunsetInMinutes'] - 10) then
		-- do something
	end
return commandArray

Jos

[Whatsek]

Thank you for this nice example!

[salvation]

Tnx jvzd, I already found that option. But that was not what I was looking for, though the results are the same.

[marigo]

This is an example which will run at sunset - 10 minutes:

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commandArray = {}
	-- get current time
	timenow = os.date("*t")
	minutesnow = timenow.min + timenow.hour * 60
	-- test for sunset - 10 minutes
	if (minutesnow == timeofday['SunsetInMinutes'] - 10) then
		-- do something
	end
return commandArray

Jos

If I use this lua script and send an e-mail when it's 10 minutes to sunset then I will get 8 e-mails

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commandArray['SendEmail']='Sunset-test#Het is 10 minuten voor zonsondergang#[email protected]'

What am I doing wrong?

[jvdz]

How is the script ran?
Is in an script in the internal editor and did you change the dropdownbox below LUA to Time?

Jos

[bizziebis]

Save it as a Time script, not as a Device script

[marigo]

Hmmm, I think that's were I went wrong. I have changed the script name from "device" to "time".
In about a few hours I can update this tread and let you know if it worked.

EDIT: it works perfect now! Thank you all for the replies.

script name: script_time_sunset-test.lua

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commandArray = {}
   -- get current time
   timenow = os.date("*t")
   minutesnow = timenow.min + timenow.hour * 60
   -- test for sunset - 10 minutes
   if (minutesnow == timeofday['SunsetInMinutes'] - 10) then
      commandArray['SendEmail']='Sunset-test#Het is 10 minuten voor zonsondergang#[email protected]'
   end
return commandArray