node-red-contrib-sun-position for NodeRED

This is a ultimate Node-Red Timer based flow control with dusk, dawn (and variations) and much more. Additional you can get sun and moon position or to control a flow by sun or moon position. It is ideal for usage of control smart home, but also for all other time based flow control. In addition, there is now a blind controller, which can set blind position time and sun controlled. ( see blind-control )

Preconditions

These nodes need at least Node-Red with Version 0.18! Any early Version of Node-Red will not work!

Installation

npm install node-red-contrib-sun-position

General

Saving resources

The nodes are designed to do not calculate time events with every arriving message or with an interval every x time. This is to be able to handle a huge amount of messages also on even on computers with low resources.

second based accuracy

The nodes are designed to be accurate to seconds. This means it was designed to turn on/off at exact given second. Other timers often work using intervals where they check your schedule only once a minute or even less. This means when you want something to come on at 08:00am, it may actually not come on until 30 seconds later. This nodes does not have this problem, it will come on at exactly 08:00:00am.

Implemented Nodes

within-time a switch node, which forwards a message only within a certain period of time.The beginning and the end can also be sunset, sunrise, moonset, moonrise or any other sun times.
time-inject a inject node, which can send a message on a specified time, which can also be a sun or moon time.
sun-position a node which calculates sun position. Can be used as a switch node for specific azimuth of the sun.
moon-position a node which calculates moon position and phases. Can be used as a switch node for specific azimuth of the sun.

sun-position

The node calculates the current sun position on any input message. This node is compatible to node-red-contrib-blindcontroller.

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sun-position - Node settings

Position connects to the central configuration node, which contains the current position, but also handles internal shared functions
Topic defines the topic of the first output
position container here you can define multiple lower and upper limits for azimuth. If the calculated value of the azimuth is inside the defined limit the input message will send to the associated output.
Name name of the Node

Node Input

The Input is for triggering the calculation. If limits are defined the input message will send to the output associated to the limit.

sun-position - Node Output

first output
- msg.payload.azimuth the azimuth of the sun position relative to the given coordinates.
- msg.payload.altitude the altitude/elevation of the sun position relative to the given coordinates.
- msg.payload.times the sun times as object.
  - msg.payload.times.astronomicalDawn night ends (morning astronomical twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.amateurDawn amateur astronomical dawn (sun at 12° before sunrise)
  - msg.payload.times.nauticalDawn nautical dawn (morning nautical twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.blueHourDawnStart blue Hour start (time for special photography photos starts)
  - msg.payload.times.civilDawn dawn (morning nautical twilight ends, morning civil twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.blueHourDawnEnd blue Hour end (time for special photography photos starts)
  - msg.payload.times.sunrise sunrise (top edge of the sun appears on the horizon)
  - msg.payload.times.sunriseEnd sunrise ends (bottom edge of the sun touches the horizon)
  - msg.payload.times.goldenHourDawnEnd morning golden hour (soft light, best time for photography) ends
  - msg.payload.times.solarNoon solar noon (sun is in the highest position)
  - msg.payload.times.goldenHourDuskStart evening golden hour starts
  - msg.payload.times.sunsetStart sunset starts (bottom edge of the sun touches the horizon)
  - msg.payload.times.sunset sunset (sun disappears below the horizon, evening civil twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.blueHourDuskStart nautical dusk start (evening astronomical twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.civilDusk dusk (evening nautical twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.blueHourDuskEnd nautical dusk end (evening astronomical twilight starts)
  - msg.payload.times.amateurDusk amateur astronomical dusk (sun at 12° after sunrise)
  - msg.payload.times.astronomicalDusk night starts (dark enough for astronomical observations)
  - msg.payload.times.nadir nadir (darkest moment of the night, sun is in the lowest position)
- msg.payload.pos array with a boolean of every defined limit of the azimuth, which is true if the azimuth is inside the limit.
- msg.payload.posChanged boolean which is true if any of the defined limit of the azimuth has changed to the last calculation.
- msg.payload.startTime if a start time is defined the start timestamp (inclusive of offset).
- msg.payload.endTime if a end time is defined the end timestamp (inclusive of offset).
- msg.payload.sunInSky if a start and an end time is defined a boolean value indicating whether it is currently considered daylight hours.
- msg.payload.altitudePercent gives the altitude in percent between horizon (0%) and solar noon (100%) (will not calculated if sun position for a time is calculated which is not today or tomorrow).
second output to ... output if limits for azimuth are defined the incoming message will send to this output. It adds a msg.posChanged property of type boolean which is true if in the previous calculation no message was send to this output.

moon-position

The node calculates the current sun position on any input message.

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moon-position - Node settings

Position connects to the central configuration node, which contains the current position, but also handles internal shared functions
Topic defines the topic of the first output
position container here you can define multiple lower and upper limits for azimuth. If the calculated value of the azimuth is inside the defined limit the input message will send to the associated output.
Name name of the Node

moon-position - Node Output

first output
- msg.payload.azimuth the azimuth of the moon position relative to the given coordinates.
- msg.payload.altitude the altitude/elevation of the moon position relative to the given coordinates.
- msg.payload.distance the distance of the moon.
- msg.payload.parallacticAngle the parallacticAngle of the moon.
- msg.payload.illumination the illumination of the moon as object.
  - msg.payload.illumination.angle the illumination angle of the moon.
  - msg.payload.illumination.fraction the illumination fraction angle of the moon.
  - msg.payload.illumination.zenithAngle the illumination zenith angle of the moon.
  - msg.payload.illumination.phase the illumination phase of the moon as object.
    - msg.payload.illumination.phase.value the current phase of the moon in percent, where 0%/100% is New Moon, from 0% to 50% is growing, 50% is Full Moon and >50% is decreasing.
    - msg.payload.illumination.phase.angle the current phase angle of the moon.
    - msg.payload.illumination.phase.emoji the emoji of the current phase of the moon.
    - msg.payload.illumination.phase.code the code of the emoji for the current phase of the moon.
    - msg.payload.illumination.phase.name the name of the current phase of the moon.
- msg.payload.times the moon times as object.
  - msg.payload.times.rise the moon rise time.
  - msg.payload.times.set the moon set time.
  - msg.payload.times.alwaysUp boolean which is true if the moon never rises/sets and is always above the horizon during the day.
  - msg.payload.times.alwaysDown boolean which is true if the moon is always below the horizon.
- msg.payload.pos array with a boolean of every defined limit of the azimuth, which is true if the azimuth is inside the limit.
- msg.payload.posChanged boolean which is true if any of the defined limit of the azimuth has changed to the last calculation.

{
  "lastUpdate": "2018-11-11T11:11:11.111Z",
  "latitude": "18.473782",
  "longitude": "-34.357051",
  "angleType": "deg",
  "azimuth": 108.71205459404247,
  "altitude": -9.578482237780767,
  "distance": 400811.8001636167,
  "parallacticAngle": -73.92702172116152,
  "illumination": {
    "angle": -94.27663428960696,
    "fraction": 0.14981886026806135,
    "phase": {
      "emoji": "🌒",
      "code": ":waxing_crescent_moon:",
      "name": "Waxing Crescent",
      "weight": 6.3825,
      "value": 0.12651089732280724,
      "angle": 45.54392303621061
    },
    "zenithAngle": -20.349612568445437
  },
  "times": {
    "rise": "2018-11-11T11:44:22.877Z",
    "set": "2018-11-11T23:10:07.389Z",
    "alwaysUp": false,
    "alwaysDown": false
  },
  "pos": [],
  "posChanged": false
}

second output to ... output if limits for azimuth are defined the incoming message will send to this output. It adds a msg.payload.posChanged property of type boolean which is true if the limit has changed since the last azimuth calculation.

time-inject

Injects a message into a flow either manually or at timestamps which can also depending on the sunset, sunrise, or moon set and rise. The message payload can be a variety of types, including strings, JavaScript objects, the current time or the current sun or moon position.

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time-inject - Node settings

Position connects to the central configuration node, which contains the current position, but also handles internal shared functions
Payload defines the payload of the message object send to the output
Topic defines the topic of the send message
Time An optional property that can be configured when the inject node should emit a message on that timestamp.
Offset An optional property which is only available if an time is chosen. The offset can be a positive or negative and defines a time offset to the chosen time.
Days An optional property which is only available if an time is chosen. There can be defined on which days a msg should be emitted.
Property optional here can be defined a condition under which a alternate time should be used.
Alternate time optional defines an alternate start time which will be used if the condition applies. This can be used for different times for example of holidays/weekend.
Additional Inject on Start If this checkbox is set the inject node can emit the message on Node-Red Start or on any deploy of this node. There can be defined a delay after the emit should be done. This can be useful for initializing any flow.
Set additional With this selection you can
- set global, flow context or set additional property of the message object (if the property is payload the payload will be overridden.)
- for any timestamp properties like timestamp, sun time, moon time there are a lot of possibilities to influence this. You can add an offset or select the days wherefore the timestamp should be calculated. The output format could be Unix, ECMA timestamp, object or the time difference between timestamp and emit the message. This is useful to to send a payload of true on sunset with an additional message property as on time with the seconds until sunrise.
  - set additional timestamp: !
  - set additional sun timestamp:
  - possible formats of timestamp output
    - number - milliseconds UNIX timestamp
    - string - ECMA-262
    - string - local date and time
    - string - local time
    - string - UTC date and time
    - string - ISO date and time
    - string - YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
    - string - YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS
    - number - milliseconds since emit
    - number - seconds since emit
    - number - minutes since emit
    - number - hour since emit
    - as object

time-inject-settings-addProp1

If this checkbox is set the inject node

time-inject - Node Input

It has only a button as input, where the massage could injected into a flow manually.

time-inject - Node Output

The output is a message with the defined payload and topic in the settings.

within-time

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within-time - Node settings

A simple node that routes messages depending on the time. If the current time falls within the range specified in the node configuration, the message is routed to output 1. Otherwise the message is routed to output 2.

Position connects to the central configuration node, which contains the current position, but also handles internal shared functions
Start time defines the start time of the time range with with different configuration possibilities
- Start Offset allows to define a positive or negative offset in seconds, minutes or hours to the given Start Time. This will be useful for sun based times.
End time defines the end time of the time range with with different configuration possibilities
- End Offset allows to define a positive or negative offset in seconds, minutes or hours to the given End Time. This will be useful for sun based times.
Alternate start time optional defines an alternate start time of the time range which will be used if the conditions matches. This can be used for different times for example of holidays.
- Start time alternate start time
- Start Offset offset for the alternate start time
Alternate end time optional defines an alternate end time of the time range which will be used if the conditions matches. This can be used for different times for example of holidays.
- End time alternate end time
- End Offset offset for the alternate end time
resend start If this checkbox is checked and a message arrived outside of time, this message will be additional send again some milliseconds after next start time point. This option is only for fixed time definitions available.
resend end If this checkbox is checked and a message arrived within time, this message will be additional send again some milliseconds after next end time point. This option is only for fixed time definitions available.

time-comp

A enhanced node for time format change and time comparison.

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time-comp - Node settings

A simple node that routes messages depending on the time. If the current time falls within the range specified in the node configuration, the message is routed to output 1. Otherwise the message is routed to output 2.

Position connects to the central configuration node, which contains the current position, but also handles internal shared functions
Input defines the input parameter for the time stamp
- parse format defines the format for the input parameter, more information see input parse formats.
- Offset allows to define a positive or negative offset to the given Input Time.
compare with here can be defined various definitions of times to which the input time should be compared.
- operator Drop down to define operator
- compare type allows to define what parts of the time string should be compared. Default is a comparison of the complete timestamp. But it is possible to only compare a pat like the only the year.
- time defines where the time to which should be compared comes from
- parse format defines the format for the time to compare, more information see input parse formats.
- Offset allows to define a positive or negative offset to the given time.
- limitation here it is possible to additionally define a parameter. if defined this comparison will only be made if the conditions matches.
result allows to write the Input time to a parameter in a different format. Without defining any compare with, the node allows by only defining input and result parameter a simply time format conversation.

time-span

A enhanced node for time span calculation and time span comparison.

tbd

time-span - Node settings

A simple node that routes messages depending on the time. If the current time falls within the range specified in the node configuration, the message is routed to output 1. Otherwise the message is routed to output 2.

Position connects to the central configuration node, which contains the current position, but also handles internal shared functions
Input 1 defines the first input parameter for the time span calculation
- parse format defines the format for the first input parameter, more information see input parse formats.
- Offset allows to define a positive or negative offset to the given Input 1 Time.
Input 2 defines the second input parameter for the time span calculation
- parse format defines the format for the second input parameter, more information see input parse formats.
- Offset allows to define a positive or negative offset to the given Input 2 Time.
compare with here can be defined various time spams to which the time span between timestamp of input 1 and input 2 should be compared.
- operator Drop down to define operator for comparison
- time defines a number to which should be the timespan be compared
- time type the unit of the given time
result ** as result of an incoming message, data could be written to that destination. This could be a message property, a flow or a global context.
- result value defines the value which should be written to the result destination. Could be the timestamp, one of the Input times or any other time/data. For timestamp or times the output format or maybe an offset could be defined.

Without defining any comparison, the node allows by only defining inputs and result a simply timespan calculation.

blind-control

Used to control a blind with many possibilities. This can be time-dependent and it can calculate the blind position based on the current position of the sun to limit the sun light To limit the sunlight on the floor of a window.

blind-control

Times definitions

The time definitions of the nodes has different configuration possibilities

manual timestamps can be entered as one of the following formats:

00:00 ... 23:59 24h Format
00:00:00 ... 23:59:00 24h Format with seconds
00:00pm ... 12:59pm 12h Format
00:00:00pm ... 12:59:00pm 12h Format with seconds

sun times

following Sun times will be calculated and can be chosen:

Time	Description	SunBH
`astronomicalDawn`	night ends (morning astronomical twilight starts)	18
`amateurDawn`	amateur astronomical dawn (sun at 12° before sunrise)	15
`nauticalDawn`	nautical dawn (morning nautical twilight starts)	12
`blueHourDawnStart`	blue Hour start (time for special photography photos starts)	8
`civilDawn`	dawn (morning nautical twilight ends, morning civil twilight starts)	6
`blueHourDawnEnd`	blue Hour end (time for special photography photos end)	4
`goldenHourDawnStart`	morning golden hour (soft light, best time for photography) starts	-1
`sunrise`	sunrise (top edge of the sun appears on the horizon)	0.833
`sunriseEnd`	sunrise ends (bottom edge of the sun touches the horizon)	0.3
`goldenHourDawnEnd`	morning golden hour (soft light, best time for photography) ends	-6
`solarNoon`	solar noon (sun is in the highest position)
`goldenHourDuskStart`	evening golden hour (soft light, best time for photography) starts	-6
`sunsetStart`	sunset starts (bottom edge of the sun touches the horizon)	0.3
`sunset`	sunset (sun disappears below the horizon, evening civil twilight starts)	0.833
`goldenHourDuskEnd`	evening golden hour (soft light, best time for photography) ends	1
`blueHourDuskStart`	blue Hour start (time for special photography photos starts)	4
`civilDusk`	dusk (evening nautical twilight starts)	6
`blueHourDuskEnd`	blue Hour end (time for special photography photos end)	8
`nauticalDusk`	nautical dusk end (evening astronomical twilight starts)	12
`amateurDusk`	amateur astronomical dusk (sun at 12° after sunrise)	15
`astronomicalDusk`	night starts (dark enough for astronomical observations)	18
`nadir`	nadir (darkest moment of the night, sun is in the lowest position)

SunBH is the angle of the sun below the horizon

remarks

blue hour

Although the blue hour does not have an official definition, the blue color spectrum is most prominent when the Sun is between 4° and 8° below the horizon.

amateurDawn /amateurDusk

This is not an official definition, this is happend when the Sun is 15° below the horizon

alternate properties

The following time parameters are exists in the output for backward compatibility. These are equal to parameters in the table above:

time parameter	is equal to
`dawn`	`civilDawn`
`dusk`	`civilDusk`
`nightEnd`	`astronomicalDawn`
`night`	`astronomicalDusk`
`nightStart`	`astronomicalDusk`
`goldenHour`	`goldenHourDuskStart`
`sunsetEnd`	`sunset`
`sunriseStart`	`sunrise`
`goldenHourEnd`	`goldenHourDawnEnd`
`goldenHourStart`	`goldenHourDuskStart`

moon times

moon rise and moon set can be used

message, flow or global property or JSONATA expression

any message, flow or global property which contain any of the following types:

Integer which is a Unix Time Stamp representing the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, with leap seconds ignored.
String value representing a valid JavaScript date-string.

String as one of the following formats:

00:00 ... 23:59 24h Format
00:00:00 ... 23:59:00 24h Format with seconds
00:00pm ... 12:59pm 12h Format
00:00:00pm ... 12:59:00pm 12h Format with seconds

Offsets: The start and end time can have an offset. This is specified in seconds,minutes or hours:

negative number brings the time forward. E.g. if the time is dusk and offset is -60 minutes, the start time will be 60 minutes before dusk.
positive number delays the time by the specified number

input parse formats

Some nodes has the ability to get an input time out of different pre defined formats or a free format definition.

The formats are:

milliseconds UNIX timestamp This is the default for Node-ed. Timestamps are a numeric representation of the time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC
ECMA-262 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ - This is the default toString output of JavaScript. This is a simplification of the ISO 8601 Extended Format.
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is a number of the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS is a number of the format YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS.
various the system will try to parse different string formats
other there you can define a format like "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" of the given time. Possible format placeholders are:

Field	Full Form	Short Form
Year	yyyy (4 digits)	yy (2 digits), y (2 or 4 digits)
Month	MMM (name or abbr.)	MM (2 digits), M (1 or 2 digits)
Month	NNN (abbr.)
Day of Month	dd (2 digits)	d (1 or 2 digits)
Day of Week	EE (name)	E (abbr.)
Hour (1-12)	hh (2 digits)	h (1 or 2 digits)
Hour (0-23)	HH (2 digits)	H (1 or 2 digits)
Hour (0-11)	KK (2 digits)	K (1 or 2 digits)
Hour (1-24)	kk (2 digits)	k (1 or 2 digits)
Minute	mm (2 digits)	m (1 or 2 digits)
Second	ss (2 digits)	s (1 or 2 digits)
Millisecond	ll (3 digits)	l (1, 2 or 3 digits)
AM/PM	tt (2 digits)	t (1 or 2 digits)

output timestamp formats

For timestamp outputs some nodes has the ability to define the format of the timestamp. Therefore different pre defined formats exists or a free format definition.

The formats are:

milliseconds UNIX timestamp Timestamps are a numeric representation of the time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC
ECMA-262 YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ - This is the default toString output of JavaScript. This is a simplification of the ISO 8601 Extended Format.
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is a number of the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.
YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS is a number of the format YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS.
local is the java script output of date.toLocaleString()
localLong is the java script output of date.toString()
localTime is the java script output of date.toLocaleTimeString()
localTimeLong is the java script output of date.toTimeString()
localDate is the java script output of date.toLocaleDateString()
localDateLong is the java script output of date.toDateString()
UTC is the java script output of date.toUTCString()
ISO YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ (output of date.toISOString())
ms the time in milliseconds between output and timestamp
sec the time in seconds between output and timestamp
min the time in minutes between output and timestamp
hour the time in hours between output and timestamp
Day Name the timestamps day in the format Monday, 22.12.
Day in relative the timestamps day in relative to output time in the format Today, 22.12.
object gives back an object for the timestamp with the following properties:
- date Java script Date object
- ts number - Unix timestamp (milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC)
- timeUTCStr string representation of the Time in UTC format
- timeISOStr string representation of the Time in ISO format
- timeLocaleStr the java script output of date.toLocaleString()
- timeLocaleTimeStr the java script output of date.toLocaleTimeString()
- delay the time in milliseconds between output and timestamp
- delaySec the time in seconds between output and timestamp
other there you can define a format like "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" of the given time. Possible format placeholders are:

placeholder	Description
d	Day of the month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit days.
dd	Day of the month as digits; leading zero for single-digit days.
ddd	Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation. (same as E)
dddd	Day of the week as its full name. (same as EE)
E	Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
EE	Day of the week as its full name.
M	Month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit months.
MM	Month as digits; leading zero for single-digit months.
MMM	Month as a three-letter abbreviation.
MMMM	Month as its full name.
yy	Year as last two digits; leading zero for years less than 10.
yyyy	Year represented by four digits.
h	Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock 1-12).
hh	Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock 01-12).
H	Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock 0-23).
HH	Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock 00-23).
k	Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock 0-11).
kk	Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock 00-11).
K	Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock 1-24).
KK	Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock 01-24).
m	Minutes; no leading zero for single-digit minutes.
mm	Minutes; leading zero for single-digit minutes.
s	Seconds; no leading zero for single-digit seconds.
ss	Seconds; leading zero for single-digit seconds.
l	Milliseconds; no leading zeros for single-digit
ll	Milliseconds; 1 leading zero for single-digit; no for 3 digits
lll	Milliseconds; 2 leading zero for single-digit; 2 for 2 digits
L	Milliseconds divided by 100 round to 0; no leading zero
LL	Milliseconds divided by 10 round to 0; leading zero for single-digit
t	Lowercase, single-character time marker string: a or p.
tt	Lowercase, two-character time marker string: am or pm.
T	Uppercase, single-character time marker string: A or P.
TT	Uppercase, two-character time marker string: AM or PM.
Z	timezone abbreviation, e.g. EST, MDT, MESZ or MEZ.
z	timezone offset, e.g. GMT-0500
zz	timezone offset - nothing for GMT/UTC, e.g. -0500 or +0230.
o	GMT/UTC timezone offset in hours:minutes, e.g. -05:00 or +02:30.
oo	GMT/UTC timezone offset, e.g. -0500 or +0230.
ooo	GMT/UTC timezone offset - 'Z' for GMT/UTC, e.g. -0500 or +0230.
oooo	GMT/UTC timezone offset - 'UTC' for GMT/UTC, e.g. -0500 or +0230.
S	The date's ordinal suffix (st, nd, rd, or th). Works well with d.
x	difference of days from timestamp day to output day
xx	difference of days from timestamp day to output day with relative names for today, tomorrow, ...
'…' or "…"	Literal character sequence. Surrounding quotes are removed.
UTC:	Must be the first four characters of the mask. Converts the date from local time to UTC/GMT/Zulu time before applying the mask. The "UTC:" prefix is removed.

output timespan formats

For timespan output the calc-timespan node has the ability to define the format of the timespan. Therefore different pre defined formats exists or a free format definition.

The formats are:

ms timespan im milliseconds (integer value)
sec, min,..., month, years timespan as a floating point number or as a integer number of the the chosen unit.
object gives back an object for the timespan with the following properties:
- date Java script Date object
- ts number - Unix timestamp (milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC)
- timeUTCStr string representation of the Time in UTC format
- timeISOStr string representation of the Time in ISO format
- timeLocaleStr the java script output of date.toLocaleString()
- timeLocaleTimeStr the java script output of date.toLocaleTimeString()
- delay the time in milliseconds between output and timestamp
- delaySec the time in seconds between output and timestamp
other there you can define a format like "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" of the given time. Possible format placeholders are:

Conditions

A condition usually consists of a property, an operator and depending on the operator, a threshold.

property, an operator:

property, operator and threshold:

The operators are:

is true - the value of the property must be of type boolean and the condition is fulfilled if the value is true
is false - the value of the property must be of type boolean and the condition is fulfilled if the value is false
is null - the value of the property must be undefined or null
is not null - the value of the property can have an obscure value that is not undefined or null
is empty - the condition is fulfilled if the property is an empty string, array, buffer or an object with no properties
is not empty - the condition is fulfilled if the property is an string, array, buffer which is not empty or an object which has properties
true expression - the condition is fulfilled if the property is a number and greater 0 or a Boolean which is true or a string containing one of the following values true, yes, on, ja. If the property has a string switchon then this would evaluate to true, because on is part of the string.
false expression - the condition is fulfilled if the property is a number and less than or equal 0 or a Boolean which is false or a string containing one of the following values false, no, off, nein. If the property has a string nonsens then this would evaluate to true, because no is part of the string.
not true expression - the condition is fulfilled if the property is a number and not greater 0 or a Boolean which is not true or a string containing none of the following values true, yes, on, ja. It the property is a number and NaN then this would evaluate to true.
false expression - the condition is fulfilled if the property is a number and not less than or equal 0 or a Boolean which is not false or a string containing none of the following values false, no, off, nein.
<, <=, ==, !=, >, >= - compares the value of the property with a threshold. Typically this makes only sense if the property and the threshold are numbers.
contain - the condition is fulfilled if the property contains the string defined in the threshold.
containSome - the threshold must be a string separated with comma ,, semicolon ; or pipe |. The condition is fulfilled as soon as only one of the separated parts of the threshold string is is included in the property value.
containEvery - the threshold must be a string separated with comma ,, semicolon ; or pipe |. The condition is fulfilled as soon as all of the separated parts of the threshold string are included in the property value.

A JSONata expression in the property must be always a boolean with value true, in this case the operator can not be chosen.

CHANGELOG

TODO

add possibility to select input/output timezone
Add new node time-control as a stripped down node of the blind control with only rules for control other devices like dimmer and thermostats

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Preconditions

Installation

General

Saving resources

second based accuracy

Implemented Nodes

sun-position

sun-position - Node settings

Node Input

sun-position - Node Output

moon-position

moon-position - Node settings

moon-position - Node Output

time-inject

time-inject - Node settings

time-inject - Node Input

time-inject - Node Output

within-time

within-time - Node settings

time-comp

time-comp - Node settings

time-span

time-span - Node settings

blind-control

Times definitions

sun times

remarks

blue hour

amateurDawn /amateurDusk

alternate properties

moon times

message, flow or global property or JSONATA expression

input parse formats

output timestamp formats

output timespan formats

Conditions

CHANGELOG

TODO

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