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sidstamm / energymonitor

Monitors energy usage (and production) and displays reports through a web site.

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Add sun up/down info #4

Open sidstamm opened 6 years ago

sidstamm commented 6 years ago

It would be nice to also visualize sun availability (plot sunrise/sunset and if possible, sun angle). Need to:

[ ] find sunset/sunrise data source
[ ] append "sunup" data to the weather dataset
[ ] update graph background to be tinted during sun-down times
[ ] consider smoothing dark/light backgrounds

sidstamm commented 6 years ago

Looks like the NOAA models solar irradiance (nsrdb-solar).

User manual: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/nsrdb-solar/documentation-2010/NSRDB_UserManual_r20120906.pdf See table 1: data access options.

Station ID for terre haute is 724373.

Unfortunately, some of the files appear to be from 2007. Perhaps it's better to just use the astronomical models to calculate sun angle and plot that.