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Is this still working?

Sun, 31 May 2026 12:43:00 +0000

I cannot get this plugin to connect anymore.

How is the Moon Phase interpreted

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:22:09 +0000

I have the Sun Nodeserver running, but the Moon Phase just reports a number... right now it is showing 18.

I have looked for some documentation for this NS and I can not find a valid link. Any input appreciated.

Documentation link needs to be updated - and a note on elevation

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:30:15 +0000

The documentation/"more info" link in the Polyglot 3x store page doesn't work.

"Not found".

https://github.com/UniversalDevicesInc-PG3/udi-sun-poly/master/blob/README.md

If I push that button (MacOS/FirefoxPolyglot V3 via I0X Finder) it takes me to the above link and I get "not found".

I found the following in a topic on this forum:

https://github.com/UniversalDevicesInc-PG3/udi-sun-poly/blob/master/README.md

This link works.

Took me a minute to spot the difference: the correct link reads blob/master while the incorrect link reads master/blob.

I had some trouble figuring out the format of the parameters. I fiddled around and finally got the format for latitude and longitude, and now I get values.

Still unsure about height. Feet or meters? That's not in the documentation. But at least now I can find the Github repo and read the code to figure it out.

Edit: answer - the poly uses astral.geocoder.

https://astral.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

There's a note in the documentation:

Quote

"Location elevations have been removed from the database. These were added due to a misunderstanding of the affect of elevation on the times of the sun. These are not required for the calculations, only the elevation of the observer above/below the location is needed."

And then I found this about Astral.Observer:

A float that is the elevation in metres above a location, if the nearest obscuring feature is the horizon

Not showing anything but 0s and connected

Fri, 26 May 2023 14:07:37 +0000

I’ve tried usual reboot restart and query and it appears connected but nothing but in the position fields.

Moon Phase Driver not updating very frequently.

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:16:25 +0000

The moon phase does not update constantly as the rest of the SUN Node Server driver info does. It's at 1.74 all day today. A couple days ago it missed the entire new moon 12 hour window So I set my polls from Short 30 - Long 60 to Short 15 - Long 30 just to see if that helped. I'm not sure how often that info updates but it would be nice to see it update more frequently as the moon travels around the earth.

Thanks!

TRI0N

SUN + eisy = Not Working

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:10:14 +0000

I installed the SUN Node Server on eisy v5.5.7 | PG3x 3.1.22 but it isn't pulling anything. Reports that is is Connected inside UDAC and in PG3X. Just everything is at zero. I tried removing the elevation configuration line but that didn't do it.

TRI0N

Sun Not Reporting Values in PG3

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:13:59 +0000

I'm everything over to PG3 and all is going reasonably well. However, when installing the Sun node, I am getting no values as to sun position. It shows as connected, but everything else is zero. It was working great on PG2. Any ideas? There is nothing on GitHub.