I am (again) seeming to be missing something

General
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This one has me stumped.

I have a flow to open/control blinds. Well the software part of it at this point.

Today I was doing a check to see what it was saying and I am seeing weird things on the screen.

The flow gets the azimuth an "AM/PM" indicator and a "Sunset" indicator.
If it is AM, and the azimuth is greater than a value, it partly opens the blinds.
If the azimuth is less than the value, it fully opens the blinds.
Then, when "SUNSET" occurs, it closes the blinds.

Yes, I haven't done the bit of code from Mid-night to sunrise, but......

Today I am looking at the output and the flow is saying FULLY OPEN blinds, yet when I look at the data, it is saying PARTLY OPEN blinds.

You can see on the function node it has a green dot saying PART OPEN, yet to the right, you can see message packets saying OPEN, and the colour is CYAN, not GREEN.

DISCLAIMER
Ok, I accept I have goofed with a bit of the code and the context.get( ) part.
I accept that, but even knowing that why is the flow/screen showing me this disparity with what is happening?

Code below.

And there is another thing which has me confused also.
Setting the "azimuth reference" value.
I have a few nodes.
An inject, a slider, a number entry, a function node and a debug node.
The inject injects the value I want at "startup" and the slider/number input allow me to adjust it (if that is ever needed) from a GUI perspective.
The debug is simply so I can see all that is going on from the edit window.
The function node does the flow.set( ) part.
While messing around and looking at the values initially, I saw the "reference azimuth" was wrong.
I clicked the inject node: NOTHING.
I added a node.warn( ) to the function node. Pressed the inject: NOTHING.
So putting aside the "partial deploy" vs "full deploy" problem that was told to me....

What is happening?

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Code:

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Where are you based ? Looks close to me in Sydney ?
When i launch your flow and look at the debug i can getting

image

It is currently 11:06 AM

Wonder if there is an issue with Southern Hemisphere ir are these values correct ?

Craig

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Most of your debug nodes look disabled. So when you say "Pressed the inject: NOTHING", is that because they're disabled? i.e. click the handle on the right to enable them and try again.

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Craig,

Yeah, Sydney.

From Sunrise to about 55 degrees azimuth I want the blinds part open.
From 55 degrees azimuth to sunset, I want them completely open.
Sunset on: Closed.

The https://discourse.nodered.org/uploads/short-url/pUFbAvgZxDW4cvdxtc1ZmggZGOH.png

That doesn't look right.

Azimuth 156.54 at 11:06.
It should be a small number by then.
It starts at sunrise around 90 and decreases to 0 at noon when the sun is at its highest then increments again towards 90 at sunset.

And that is further re-enforced by a previous thread I had.... Oh, it was you who replied.
I use the "AM" qualifier to determine morning.

But, having said that and I do it now, I am getting 308 at 14:29.
WEIRD.

Just did a query and calculated the azimuth on another site:

EAST SYDNEY Lat=-33°52'00" Long=+151°13'00" Height=0.0m

AZIMUTH AND ALTITUDE OF THE SUN
Time zone: +10.00 hours
Altitude includes astronomical refraction angle for a standard atmosphere.
Date Time Refraction Azimuth Altitude
10/09/2018 12:00:00 00°00'47" 356°56'32" 51°05'59"

Computed using National Mapping Division's sunmoonposn program, version 1.1

So there is something going on because the other day when I asked, it was doing what I described: starting about 90, decreasing to mid day then increasing.

Michael,
Yeah, ok, all the debug nodes are disabled.
I disabled them all before posting to not "flood" the person with data sprawling at them when the deploy it.

I maybe should have further explained which nodes to use, but I am at the bottom of the ladder on that side of things.

Sorry.

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Yep i am in Sydney as well - those are the co-ords i use in Darksky so am pretty sure they are accurate. I have no idea what info the Azimuth should be returning - i would assume though that it would be a value of X degrees above the horizon - then once it hits 90 it would start decreasing ? Obviously should not be returning a number like that if that is the case ?

Craig

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I wonder if this is anything to do with it ?

You are expecting solar zenith angle i think (?)

Here is mine just now - note the value for the altitude

image

Craig