Feature: days on sun events

[gpongelli]

Hi, congratulations for this node, it's very powerful!

Using it I've found that could be useful adding a day/month/year selection, like cron does, applied on sunrise/sunset events to fire message on events like "weekend sunset" or "march sunrise" and so on.
Do you think it can be feasible ?

Thanks!

[Steve-Mcl]

Hi @gpongelli , thanks for the compliments.

I've found that could be useful adding a day/month/year selection, like cron does, applied on sunrise/sunset events
This is something that has entered (and quickly left) my head when I was adding solar times.

I will leave this open and if i have a genius idea of how to chain the cron and solar events, I will update you.

For now, I can only offer you a workaround...

weekend sunset / march sunrise

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[drmibell]

With a very small tweak to @Steve-Mcl's workaround, you can define filters simply by how you wire them into your flow. You can even stack them to select odd-numbered Thursdays in November, and so on.

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