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.