bouwew/ha_skyfield

See the apparent positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets in this home assistant custom component

Live Sun, Moon, and Planets for Home Assistant

This is a custom component for Home Assistant that makes a live polar sun path chart for your location. Besides the Sun, it also shows the Moon and a few major planets. Plus, it shows the Winter and Summer solstice sun paths so you can see where you are in the seasons!

This uses the skyfield library to do the computations.

To use:

• Install this in your custom_components folder
• Download the prerequisites: pip3 install skyfield matplotlib numpy
• Add the following to your home assistant config:

camera:
    platform: ha_skyfield

• Add a picture entity to your GUI with this camera. It will update live.

Optional configuration:

• show_time add a timestamp to the plot
• show_legend add a legend of the bodies
• show_constellations enable or disable the constellations
• planet_list customize which planets are shown
• constellations_list customize which constellations are shown

Inspiration comes from the University of Oregon Solar Radiation Monitoring Lab.