How to inject a message daily when sun azimuth equals 250

[mattmattmatt]

What's the recommended way to inject a message once per day when the sun's azimuth equals e.g. 250?

It seems like the inject at time node should be able to do this, but it only seems to support hardcoded sun events like sunset and nautical dawn. I tried to hack it with the alternate time functionality of that node, but to no success.

I worked around this issue currently by blindly injecting a message into the system every minute and then checking with the sun position node if the azimuth equals a certain value. While this works, it seems overly complex and not ideal.

Workaround

[Hypnos3]

This is an interesting use case. The time Inject node currently only support fixed azimuth angles which are the sun times. There is a possibility to adding a time offset to these timestamps.

The way you modeled it is currently the only way. I will think 🤔 about it, if I could implement this in any way.

[mattmattmatt]

Thanks for the quick response. 🙏

It sounds like since sunset is based on a fixed azimuth, a similar check could be done with an arbitrary azimuth as well. In any case, thanks for looking into it 👍

[Hypnos3]

I have implemented something in version 1.1.1, but it is not really tested.

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