Sun component cannot be set up

Configuration
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Hi all.
After upgrading to v0.73 HA is complaining that the sun component cannot be set up. According to the release-notes there hasn’t been any change in the sun component and I haven’t changed my configuration.yaml regarding this component either (it just says: sun:).

The log says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/setup.py", line 143, in _async_setup_component
    hass, processed_config)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 210, in coro
    res = func(*args, **kw)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sun.py", line 47, in async_setup
    sun = Sun(hass, get_astral_location(hass))
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/sun.py", line 28, in get_astral_location
    hass.data[DATA_LOCATION_CACHE][info] = Location(info)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 575, in __init__
    self.latitude = info[2]
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 620, in latitude
    self._latitude = float(latitude)
TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'

For all I know the sun component hasn’t any additional mandatory parameters to set, has it?

Anybody experiencing the same issue?

Btw: I’m running HA on my raspberry 3B+.
Thx for any advice.
Raymond.

2

Looks like it’s complaining about your latitude value

3

Yes, you’re right about that @Tinkerer. Thing is that I did not had a longitude and latitude element in the homeassistant: part in the config, only in the zone: part. HA did not complain about that in the previous versions. Just added this and now it works.
Thanks for the reply!

4

I am having issues with this as well. It seems on the last update my time zone setting went screwy. I changed them using raspi-config, after which I lost my sun component. Here are the logs

    2018-08-20 10:54:03 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Error during setup of component sun
 File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sun.py", line 47, in async_setup
   sun = Sun(hass, get_astral_location(hass))
 File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/sun.py", line 19, in get_astral_location
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Hi I am having similar problems, I can not setup sun component due python astral is looking for Africa/Lagos, but the configuration file indicates my correct lat and long:

latitude: 22.140829
longitude: -101.007534
# Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters)
elevation: 0
# metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial
unit_system: metric
# Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
time_zone: America/Mexico_City
# Customization file
customize: !include customize.yaml

This is the errorlog:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/events.py", line 126, in _run
    self._callback(*self._args)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/event.py", line 373, in pattern_time_change_listener
    hass.async_run_job(action, event.data[ATTR_NOW])
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 327, in async_run_job
    target(*args)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sun.py", line 138, in timer_update
    self.update_sun_position(time)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/sun.py", line 120, in update_sun_position
    self.solar_azimuth = self.location.solar_azimuth(utc_point_in_time)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 1173, in solar_azimuth
    self.astral = Astral()
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 1540, in __init__
    self.geocoder = geocoder()
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 1348, in __init__
    location = Location(info)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 571, in __init__
    self.timezone = info[4]
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/astral.py", line 679, in timezone
    raise ValueError("Timezone '%s' not recognized" % name)
ValueError: Timezone 'Africa/Lagos' not recognized