Sunrise/sunset times cause console to crash

[miner90027]

As the name implies, the console crashes immediately upon starting. With auto-start enabled, the console attempts to start but immediately closes. Using the start command results in the following output shown below.

Fresh install of OS & console did not resolve the issue. The recommended file permissions change listed here did not work: https://community.weatherflow.com/t/weatherflow-piconsole/1933/2549

Unknow as to when the issue started, just suddenly stopped working. Ruled out the possibility of auto-update script causing the issue when fresh install resulted in the same issue.
Unknown how to reproduce.

Hardware/OS/Version:

• OS: Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye v.11
• Hardware: Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5
• Console Version: v22.5.1

[peted-davis]

Thanks for the bug report. What is the latitude of your station? Are you particularly far north and therefore not seeing a sunset at the moment?

[miner90027]

The latitude of the station is 61.56555 roughly Wasilla, AK. About this time of year the sun never fully sets, rather it stays at a dusk/dawn light level.

[peted-davis]

Ok, that's the issue. I will need to edit the code so it can handle locations where the sun does not set (or rise) for a period of the year. This may take a little time, so I will have a look into quick workarounds to get you up and running again asap. Bear with me!

[miner90027]

Thanks. It works great during the winter when there is very little sun.

[peted-davis]

If you comment out lines 439 and 443 of main.py the console should start, just without the solar information. You should be able to use the console in this way until a roll out an update to fix the bug

[miner90027]

Alright, that temp workaround works.

[Striken5]

Is there an update on this bug?
quickfix works, but want it to work the right way

[peted-davis]

I'm still working on this, unfortunately. It has turned into a much bigger re-write of the code as it was never originally designed to cope with locations where the sun never rises or sets (my fault, I know!).

[Striken5]

I'm still working on this, unfortunately. It has turned into a much bigger re-write of the code as it was never originally designed to cope with locations where the sun never rises or sets (my fault, I know!).

Perfect :)
The error does not only apply to sunrise/sunset. but also moonrise/moonset. if this is two different coding in the program