jewzaam/timeOfDay-exporter

Simple exporter for the time of day. Useful to determine when it's day vs night for astrophotography.

timeOfDay-exporter

Simple exporter for the time of day. Useful to determine when it's day vs night for astrophotography.

Setup

Make sure you have required software:

• python
• pip
• git

Clone Source

I am running on ec2 and simply clone into the ec2-user's home directory.

git clone https://github.com/jewzaam/timeOfDay-exporter

config.yaml

You can name the file whatever you want, but this document assumes config.yaml.

location:
  latitude: <your latitude in decimal form>
  longitude: <your longitude in decimal form>
refresh_delay_seconds: 3600 # don't need often, once an hour

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Python requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt --user

Linux Service

Install the service by setting up some env vars then copying the systemd template with those vars, start the service, and enable the service.

export REPO_BASE_DIR=~/timeOfDay-exporter
export PORT=8012
export CONFIG=$REPO_BASE_DIR/config.yaml
export PYTHON=$(which python)

cat $REPO_BASE_DIR/src/systemd/timeOfDay-exporter.service | envsubst > /tmp/timeOfDay-exporter.service
sudo mv /tmp/timeOfDay-exporter.service /etc/systemd/system/timeOfDay-exporter.service

unset REPO_BASE_DIR
unset PORT
unset CONFIG
unset PYTHON

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start timeOfDay-exporter.service
sudo systemctl enable timeOfDay-exporter.service

Verify

Metrics

Check the metrics are exported on the port you specified.