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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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Run script every 5 minutes between sunrise and sunset #70

Open gls21 opened 1 year ago

gls21 commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to use heliocron to run a script every x amount of minutes between sunrise and sunset, as opposed to using it to trigger a single event relative to sunrise/set?

bgro82 commented 1 year ago

I'd probably try to do this with cron calling a script every x minutes and the script using heliocron to evaluate if the current time is between sunrise and sunset. For example I use something like the below in Python to collect the day state from Heliocron into a string:

def daylight_state(lat, lon):
    result = subprocess.run(["/home/pi/heliocron", "-l", str(lat), "-o", str(lon), "poll", "--json"],
                            capture_output=True)
    data = json.loads(result.stdout)
    return data["day_part"]