Weather Condition
Use data from weather.com or similar source to find sunrise and sunset times. Use this data to gradually scale screen brightness to a user defined max during the brightest hours of the day and back down to a user defined minimum as it gets closer to sunset.
Conditions such as time are useful in setting this scheme but would have to constantly be updated as the seasons change and would be tedious to set a gradual scale. Since the transition should be gradual, it may have to be a predefined situation. Also, other weather information can be taken into account, such as cloudy skies.
As a reference, this is a chart of the hours of sunlight throughout the year: http://encarta.msn.com/media_701500905/hours_of_daylight_by_latitude.html
In the continential US latitude varies from about 25 in Miami to about 49 on our northern border.
This feature could save battery life and maybe even eliminate the need for manual brightness changes. I'm likely overlooking things, so i would appreciate feedback and suggestions.
egscott2004
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The free Day & Night Locale Plug-in is now available on the Android Market. This plug-in implements the original request of detecting sunrise/sunset based on time of year and latitude.
https://market.android.com/details?id=se.akerfeldt.locale.sun
13 comments
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Fyrhtu
commented
Steven- you want the Beautiful Widgets live wallpaper.
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steven
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It would be nice if you could change your background according to the weather. Bright sunny background for the nice days and rainy back ground for rainy days.
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EarlyMorningHours
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I'm glad you self publicized. I didn't know about your extension until you posted here. It's an excellent and very powerful plug-in too. Thank you.
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cantabe
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You could probably use my plug in Skim Internet <http://sites.google.com/site/driftingawaydesign/skim; to do this.
For example, setting your URL to be http://www.google.com/search?q=weather%20in%20YourLocationHere and making your search string "Current: <b>Clear</b>" (without quotes), would cause your condition to trigger any time the weather for your location was "clear".
Sorry to self publicize but it seemed relevant.
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erciesielski
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I would love to have this for when I'm driving. When my screen is plugged in, the brightness goes up to 100%. But when I'm driving at night, this is far too bright.
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Doc Attanni
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I, um... this is completely riduculous, but... I have a landscape set as my wallpaper, and right now I have locale switch it over to a scary landscape at nighttime. Letting me not only set those to actual sunrise/set times, but throw in some snow & rain variables? Or better yet, a nice and calming "don't panic" screen for hurricane/blizzard/tornado conditions, would be something nice for a chuckle on a really, really bad day.
I know it's absurd. I don't beed your judgement.
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janiskfp
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There's an app for that. DimBot.
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nstoker
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Whilst I think this is an interesting thought intellectually, I do hope that - given a long list of alternatives to spend precious Locale developer time on - they do not put much effort into this (no disrespect to you for coming up with it, of course!).
The battery saving over time would probably be fairly marginal, and you are still likely to do better with the built-in light sensory (after all, what happens if you rely on this and then you pop inside to a darkened room at mid-day?) unless your particular phone doesn't have that feature.
If you want something based on Sunrise / Sunset, is it not neater to keep Locale's design as it is now and merely configure entries in your calendar that trigger something?
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AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) commented
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AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) commented
The duplicate is here: http://feedback.twofortyfouram.com/pages/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/103004-weather-condition
The author of that duplicate has requested a Weather Condition. Although it appears to be heavily related to screen brightness, that's really not important. The weather condition wouldn't be tied to any particular setting.
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gorkon
commented
Where is the duplicate? I could not find it PLUS the description is different.....
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AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) commented
This is a duplicate
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Pete Kruskall
commented
Also, being able to change settings such as ringtone based on the current weather / temperature.
