Need a sun entity where I can set the date?

[rjtrjt (Robert Taylor)]

Hi, I’m developing a template to deliver target ground temperatures for every minute of every day of the year, to emulate the real world, so I can create a very realistic environment for a Leopard Gecko. (via various lamps and heaters and thermometers)

To do this, I’m leveraging the sun entity, but I want to test my code before taking it live, since a live animal is depending on this being bug free.

So I would like to run the code with different dates and verify that it’s giving out the right answers.

However the sun sensor is always giving sunset/sunrise for today’s date.

Is there a way to make it generate the sunset/sunrise times for an arbitrary date during the year?

Thanks!

Robert

[JulianDH (Julian Hall)]

I am guessing the integration is using system date. By changing system date you will get a different result. Appears there is a way of changing system time here

Allow me to manually change the date and time

I had a catastrophic failure one morning. I lost my internet connection and, at the same time, Home Assistant crashed. When I restarted the Raspberry Pi where HA is located, it returned with the wrong date and time. I tried several ways to make the correction manually, but I discovered that Home Assistant does not allow me to make this correction. The date and time were only corrected when the internet came back (which took a while). In that interval, all the automations became useless. If I …

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if you want to try to extract the calculation data from the excel worksheet you can go here:

Solar Calculator - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory

I don’t know of any ready-made integration.

[rjtrjt (Robert Taylor)]

Thanks - yes in the end I made a list with sunset and sunrise for the whole year and indexed into that, working well now!