TPLink-Light-sunset-Scheduler

A dogey, skratty program to turn your TP-Link smart light on when it's around the sunset time.

Configuring this to work

Wow, you're really using it?

Okay then. Let's install all of the stuff this project needs, for each of the dependencies in this list type

npm install --save [name]

colors
request
node-schedule
tplink-lightbulb

(An option to turn off the colours in the output is coming soon as PuTTY and some other programs struggle to display it.) Now you'll need to configure it.

Find your longitude and latitude (http://www.latlong.net/) and place them in the config. I shouldn't have to tell you where they go.

Now you've done that, it should find your bulb on it's own (unless you reconfigure it (https://github.com/Nevexo/TPLink-Light-sunset-Scheduler/blob/master/README.md#what-everything-else-does))

This uses the UTC time zone, if you need something else see https://github.com/Nevexo/TPLink-Light-sunset-Scheduler/blob/master/README.md#utc-offset

To start it, run

node setrise.js

UTC offset

time_offset (GROUP)

The API used to get the sunset time uses the UTC timezone, to make this program work in different places around the globe, you can offset the time.

Set 'plus_minus' to either a + or a - depending on if you're behind UTC or ahead

Set 'offset' to how many hours (plus or minus) you are away from UTC.

If you use UTC, set the offset to 0 and leave it on + or -

What everything else does

autoscan

Autoscan will find your lightbulb automatically at startup, you can leave the lampIP empty.

lampIP

If you have autoScan disabled, put the IP address of your TP-Link bulb in here.

autoReset

Autoreset will automatically re-schedule your lighting tasks the next day based off the hour set in "reinitialize".

reinitialize

This is the hour (in 24hr time format) that the system should check for a new sunset time and recreate the days schedules. This is only used when autoReset is enabled.

dimAfterTwoHours

When set to true, this sets your lights to 30% 2 hours after the sun goes down.

buzzingMitigation

As with normal dimming lights, when not running at 100% brightness the internal transformer makes a buzzing sound, enabling buzzingMitigation will ramp the lights brightness up quicker, to keep the sound level to a minimum. At sunset the light will be on at exactly 100% where the transformer will be silent.

And that's it, it's a huge doge-job of a program and probably won't work for long.