@sooty, @gullygossner, I figured out to pass sunset as a starting time to the presence faker node. There are lots of methods for getting the sun times (including getting the current state of sun.sun from HA) but I ended up using the SunPosition subflow, since it gave me morning times as well as evening and goldenHours. After a simple function to extract the time, I put it into a global variable so I can use it in multiple flows. The second step gets the variable and adds text (e.g. {“windowBegin”: “17:27”}) to format it for the subflow’s dynamic configuration. Here is a sample flow:
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}\nfunction fromJulian(j) { return new Date((j + 0.5 - J1970) * dayMs); }\nfunction toDays(date) { return toJulian(date) - J2000; }\n\n\n// general calculations for position\n\nvar e = rad * 23.4397; // obliquity of the Earth\n\nfunction rightAscension(l, b) { return atan(sin(l) * cos(e) - tan(b) * sin(e), cos(l)); }\nfunction declination(l, b) { return asin(sin(b) * cos(e) + cos(b) * sin(e) * sin(l)); }\n\nfunction azimuth(H, phi, dec) { return atan(sin(H), cos(H) * sin(phi) - tan(dec) * cos(phi)); }\nfunction altitude(H, phi, dec) { return asin(sin(phi) * sin(dec) + cos(phi) * cos(dec) * cos(H)); }\n\nfunction siderealTime(d, lw) { return rad * (280.16 + 360.9856235 * d) - lw; }\n\nfunction astroRefraction(h) {\n if (h < 0) // the following formula works for positive altitudes only.\n h = 0; // if h = -0.08901179 a div/0 would occur.\n\n // formula 16.4 of \"Astronomical Algorithms\" 2nd edition by Jean Meeus (Willmann-Bell, Richmond) 1998.\n // 1.02 / tan(h + 10.26 / (h + 5.10)) h in degrees, result in arc minutes -> converted to rad:\n return 0.0002967 / Math.tan(h + 0.00312536 / (h + 0.08901179));\n}\n\n// general sun calculations\n\nfunction solarMeanAnomaly(d) { return rad * (357.5291 + 0.98560028 * d); }\n\nfunction eclipticLongitude(M) {\n\n var C = rad * (1.9148 * sin(M) + 0.02 * sin(2 * M) + 0.0003 * sin(3 * M)), // equation of center\n P = rad * 102.9372; // perihelion of the Earth\n\n return M + C + P + PI;\n}\n\nfunction sunCoords(d) {\n\n var M = solarMeanAnomaly(d),\n L = eclipticLongitude(M);\n\n return {\n dec: declination(L, 0),\n ra: rightAscension(L, 0)\n };\n}\n\n\nvar SunCalc = {};\n\n\n// calculates sun position for a given date and latitude/longitude\n\nSunCalc.getPosition = function (date, lat, lng) {\n\n var lw = rad * -lng,\n phi = rad * lat,\n d = toDays(date),\n\n c = sunCoords(d),\n H = siderealTime(d, lw) - c.ra;\n\n return {\n azimuth: azimuth(H, phi, c.dec),\n altitude: altitude(H, phi, c.dec)\n };\n};\n\n\n// sun times configuration (angle, morning name, evening name)\n\nvar times = SunCalc.times = [\n [-0.833, 'sunrise', 'sunset' ],\n [ -0.3, 'sunriseEnd', 'sunsetStart' ],\n [ -6, 'dawn', 'dusk' ],\n [ -12, 'nauticalDawn', 'nauticalDusk'],\n [ -18, 'nightEnd', 'night' ],\n [ 6, 'goldenHourEnd', 'goldenHour' ]\n];\n\n// adds a custom time to the times config\n\nSunCalc.addTime = function (angle, riseName, setName) {\n times.push([angle, riseName, setName]);\n};\n\n\n// calculations for sun times\n\nvar J0 = 0.0009;\n\nfunction julianCycle(d, lw) { return Math.round(d - J0 - lw / (2 * PI)); 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i < len; i += 1) {\n time = times[i];\n h0 = (time[0] + dh) * rad;\n\n Jset = getSetJ(h0, lw, phi, dec, n, M, L);\n Jrise = Jnoon - (Jset - Jnoon);\n\n result[time[1]] = fromJulian(Jrise);\n result[time[2]] = fromJulian(Jset);\n }\n\n return result;\n};\n\n\n// moon calculations, based on http://aa.quae.nl/en/reken/hemelpositie.html formulas\n\nfunction moonCoords(d) { // geocentric ecliptic coordinates of the moon\n\n var L = rad * (218.316 + 13.176396 * d), // ecliptic longitude\n M = rad * (134.963 + 13.064993 * d), // mean anomaly\n F = rad * (93.272 + 13.229350 * d), // mean distance\n\n l = L + rad * 6.289 * sin(M), // longitude\n b = rad * 5.128 * sin(F), // latitude\n dt = 385001 - 20905 * cos(M); // distance to the moon in km\n\n return {\n ra: rightAscension(l, b),\n dec: declination(l, b),\n dist: dt\n };\n}\n\nSunCalc.getMoonPosition = function (date, lat, lng) {\n\n var lw = rad * -lng,\n phi = rad * lat,\n d = toDays(date),\n\n c = moonCoords(d),\n H = siderealTime(d, lw) - c.ra,\n h = altitude(H, phi, c.dec),\n // formula 14.1 of \"Astronomical Algorithms\" 2nd edition by Jean Meeus (Willmann-Bell, Richmond) 1998.\n pa = atan(sin(H), tan(phi) * cos(c.dec) - sin(c.dec) * cos(H));\n\n h = h + astroRefraction(h); 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