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mfreeborn / heliocron

A command line application written in Rust capable of delaying execution of other programs for time periods relative to sunrise and sunset.
Apache License 2.0
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Add time thresholds #30

Closed min2sia closed 2 years ago

min2sia commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for this handy tool!

My use case for heliocron is to control window blinds: open at sunrise and shut at sunset. That works fine for the most part of the year, except for the summer. For example, I would like to wake up at 07:00 in the morning, but if the sun rises at 06:00 or even earlier and the blinds open with sunrise, my morning is ruined... Also in the evening I would like my room to be dark when I go to bed, but sun may be setting much later than that. I thought, it would be convenient to have 2 more threshold options in heliocron:

  1. "No earlier than". It would prevent sunrise event from firing before specified time. As per example above, if I would like to set a threshold that blinds never open before 07:00. Only at 07:00 or later.
  2. "No later than". Similarly in the evening, the sunset event would be fired no later than specified time. E.g., my blinds would always shut at 22:00 if the sun sets after that time.
mfreeborn commented 2 years ago

It's definitely a nice idea that I'm not opposed to, I just don't have the resources to commit to it unfortunately! If someone wanted to pick it up in the future, I'd be open to it.