Moon sensor - more information?

Erlend · January 3, 2018, 9:13pm

First - thanks to the many hard working and clever people that have made HA to what it is. And yet we constantly demand more…

Thanks also for making the moon sensor. But, would it be possible to add some more information to it? My wish list:

Moon age (days since last new moon)
Next full moon (date and/or days until)
Next new moon (date and/or days until)

Erlend · January 7, 2018, 11:20pm

…And of course a symbol that changes with the moon phase, similar to the changing symbol of the yr-platform (https://home-assistant.io/components/sensor.yr/).

Koalatron.9000 · March 5, 2018, 6:21am

I’ve been wanting to extract the same data. Mostly Full and New moon. I have planned on trying the examples from the Sun component, but haven’t had time yet. It would be great to get more info on how to work with this component. TL;DR “Bump”

tom_l · March 5, 2018, 6:35am

And % illumination.

Erlend · March 7, 2018, 8:36am

Great that I’m not the only one with an interest in the moon sensor! But don’t forget to hit the “vote” button.

woowoo · April 19, 2018, 9:14am

I’d like to know:

Is the moon is up right now?
Will the moon be up at midnight?

For generating alerts for good conditions for viewing night sky

cyn · June 3, 2018, 1:30pm

The phases of the moon with Dates & Times can be retrieved from google calendars.

cyn · September 26, 2018, 11:47am

And if you want illumination, I just recently asked for and received an update to the DarkSky sensor for moonphase.

Brad_Douglas · April 7, 2020, 9:28am

hi, did anyone get this working with dates and times of moon phases?

tom_l · April 7, 2020, 10:25am

I have a changing moon phase icon.

If you’re using Home Assistant Core you can use this:

This can be done with

CAP-Team · June 1, 2021, 7:58pm

Moon rise and moon set times would be nice, just like sun rise and sun set times.

locorotondo-gitter · August 22, 2021, 9:54am

I really like how the website Moon Giant (https://www.moongiant.com/) is doing it. As an aside, I noticed that the moon sensor in my Home Assistant setup never shows either Full Moon or New Moon. It goes straight from Waxing to Waning Gibbous (no full moon in between) and such, but maybe that is just my setup.

tom_l · August 22, 2021, 10:06am

This is available in the astroweather integration:

Screenshot 2021-08-22 at 20-06-17 Overview - Home Assistant

eHouse · September 7, 2021, 3:41pm

I have the same problem with it never showing full or new moon. Must be a problem with the integration.

Tinkerpop · June 9, 2022, 6:12pm

Any movement on this request yet?

dbrunt · February 1, 2024, 6:48am

Yes, and also via Node-RED’s node-red-contrib-sun-position

New sensor in HA from NR:

dbrunt · February 3, 2024, 8:40am

Here is my new “Moon” device and sensors in HA from node-red-contrib-sun-position.
(if inappropriate for this thread I will delete)

Dare2Code · July 10, 2024, 5:24pm

Hay thats awesome!!,
am super interested in setting this up. Can you please post your Node setup code here? also the dashboard code? Super super appreciate it !!

dbrunt · July 10, 2024, 6:31pm

Here’s the flow…

My Moon Flow

dbrunt · July 12, 2024, 5:03am

Here are my lovelace cards…

Button Card

type: custom:button-card
aspect_ratio: 1/0.6
show_entity_picture: true
show_name: true
show_state: true
show_label: true
entity: sensor.moon_phase
styles:
  card:
    - text-transform: capitalize
    - color: |
        [[[
         if (entity.state == 'full_moon')
           if (states['sun.sun'].state == 'below_horizon') 
             return "steelblue";
           else
             return "darkblue";
         else 
           if (states['sun.sun'].state == 'below_horizon') 
             return "white";
           else
             return "black"; 
        ]]]
    - background-color: |
        [[[
         if (states['sun.sun'].state == 'below_horizon') 
          return "black";
         else return "grey";
        ]]]
entity_picture: |
  [[[ return `/local/images/moon/${entity.state}-bg-removed.png`; ]]]
name: Moon Phase
label: |
  [[[
   return states['sensor.moon'].state.replace('_',' ');
  ]]]

Entities card

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
  - type: attribute
    name: Phase
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: phase
  - type: attribute
    name: Altitude
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: altitude
  - type: attribute
    name: Azimuth
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: azimuth
  - type: attribute
    name: Illumination
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: illumination
  - type: attribute
    name: Moon Rise
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: rise
  - type: attribute
    name: Moon Set
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: set
  - type: attribute
    name: Next Set
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_set
  - type: attribute
    name: Next Rise
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_rise
  - type: attribute
    name: Next Rise
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_rise
  - type: attribute
    name: Next New Moon
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_new_moon
  - type: attribute
    name: Next Full Moon
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_full_moon
  - type: attribute
    name: Next 1st Quarter
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_first_quarter
  - type: attribute
    name: Next 3rd Quarter
    entity: binary_sensor.above_horizon
    attribute: next_third_quarter
state_color: true