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Online subscribeable calendar for sunrise & sunset times

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mk313

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Hey guys, not sure if this is the right spot for this question, so mods feel free to move it if not.

For many yeas now, I've been using a calendar from webcal.fi that I subscribe to & then sync up with my calendar app. It adds sunrise & sunset times to my daily calendar. That service is shutting down & they've started up a new one, but it's a subscription. It's not terribly expensive, but still, I'm not sure that seeing those times is worth paying for (to me).

I'm wondering if anyone else here knows of another service (preferably free) that does the same thing? I tried googling it, but mostly the results I get involve sites that allow you to create & print paper based calendars, which is not what I'm interested in.

Thanks in advance,
 
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mk313 said:
Hey guys, not sure if this is the right spot for this question, so mods feel free to move it if not.

For many yeas now, I've been using a calendar from webcal.fi that I subscribe to & then sync up with my calendar app. It adds sunrise & sunset times to my daily calendar. That service is shutting down & they've started up a new one, but it's a subscription. It's not terribly expensive, but still, I'm not sure that seeing those times is worth paying for (to me).

I'm wondering if anyone else here knows of another service (preferably free) that does the same thing? I tried googling it, but mostly the results I get involve sites that allow you to create & print paper based calendars, which is not what I'm interested in.

Thanks in advance,
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Any weather should provide sunrise & sunset times?
 
canuckRus said:
Any weather should provide sunrise & sunset times?
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Thanks! Yah, all of the big weather sites provide it & there are even apps that do little more than provide sunrise/sunset times. Using one of those is my fallback option, but I do find that having the times on my calendar is often useful for planning.
 
mk313 said:
For many yeas now, I've been using a calendar from webcal.fi that I subscribe to & then sync up with my calendar app. It adds sunrise & sunset times to my daily calendar. That service is shutting down & they've started up a new one, but it's a subscription.
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I was also caught out by this. I've switched to https://weather.vejnoe.dk for weather in my calendar.

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Thank you.
posguy99 said:
I was also caught out by this. I've switched to https://weather.vejnoe.dk for weather in my calendar.

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Thank you! Ideally, I'd like something that shows up in the calendar at the times of sunrise/sunset, but it doens't appear that exists. I think this is the next best solution. At least It's in my calendar & I can click on the event to see the info I need. Appreciate the heads up!
 
I subscribed to the same calendar and I know exactly what you mean.

It would put the sunrise and sunset into a 15min blocks or whatever daily so you can see it rise and fall over weeks and months and was useful for planning. I haven't found a replacement yet either, but if you find something I'd be interested too!
 
yep all since webcal.fi went pro, good for them.
my prefs & how I make things work:

Apple Calendar Subscriptions​


Friendly, Free & Functional​

​

SUN RISE&SET​

Seems off for Google Agenda: overall +1hr, and Daytime Saving +2hr.​
​

MOON/ASTRO​

​

WEATHER​

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Solving Buggy Connection​

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TOGGLE LOCATION​

Add (or edit) the calendar subscription:​
1. Set Location to: On My Mac. [now showing in: Calendar List > Other]​
2. Set Location to: iCloud.​
Wait to reload, or press CMD+R, or may try toggle once again.​

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The Online iCal Sunrise and Sunset Calendar Generator is dope. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

sluikers said:
yep all since webcal.fi went pro, good for them.
my prefs & how I make things work:

Apple Calendar Subscriptions​


Friendly, Free & Functional​

​

SUN RISE&SET​

Seems off for Google Agenda: overall +1hr, and Daytime Saving +2hr.​
​

MOON/ASTRO​

​

WEATHER​

View attachment 1926142

Solving Buggy Connection​

​

TOGGLE LOCATION​

Add (or edit) the calendar subscription:​
1. Set Location to: On My Mac. [now showing in: Calendar List > Other]​
2. Set Location to: iCloud.​
Wait to reload, or press CMD+R, or may try toggle once again.​

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sluikers said:
yep all since webcal.fi went pro, good for them.
my prefs & how I make things work:

Apple Calendar Subscriptions​


Friendly, Free & Functional​

​

SUN RISE&SET​

Seems off for Google Agenda: overall +1hr, and Daytime Saving +2hr.​
​

MOON/ASTRO​

​

WEATHER​

View attachment 1926142

Solving Buggy Connection​

​

TOGGLE LOCATION​

Add (or edit) the calendar subscription:​
1. Set Location to: On My Mac. [now showing in: Calendar List > Other]​
2. Set Location to: iCloud.​
Wait to reload, or press CMD+R, or may try toggle once again.​

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Thanks for posting this. Sounds like the sunrise/sunset is what I"m looking for,. I tried using it, but I guess I just don't know what I'm doing & hope that you (or someone else on here) can help me figure this out. I click on the link & Fill out the info (lat, long, dates, etc) & hit submit. It creates a new webpage that is just a wall of text, with dates. times, etc.

I assume that I'm supposed to subscribe to that page as the calendar subscription, but every time I try, I get an error message that the calendar couldn't connect to pdxvr.com & to try again later.

Not sure if I'm doing something incorrectly. Thanks!
 
mk313 said:
Thanks for posting this. Sounds like the sunrise/sunset is what I"m looking for,. I tried using it, but I guess I just don't know what I'm doing & hope that you (or someone else on here) can help me figure this out. I click on the link & Fill out the info (lat, long, dates, etc) & hit submit. It creates a new webpage that is just a wall of text, with dates. times, etc.

I assume that I'm supposed to subscribe to that page as the calendar subscription, but every time I try, I get an error message that the calendar couldn't connect to pdxvr.com & to try again later.

Not sure if I'm doing something incorrectly. Thanks!
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What calendar app do you use?

Just tried in the stock calendar app and it works perfectly for me.

Example: https://pdxvr.com/ical_sun.php?star...escription=&zone=Asia/Hong_Kong&submit=submit
 
fl0r157 said:
I am using the link it generates (after adding my exaxt lat/long plus TZ) and adding that as a URL to my Google calendar.


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Thanks for the reply. For some reason that one works for me as well. I'll have to play with it again tonight & see if I was doing something wrong. Glad to know that my process was at least correct & to see how it works when it works. I appreciate the time you put into the reply.
 
nicho said:
What calendar app do you use?

Just tried in the stock calendar app and it works perfectly for me.

Example: https://pdxvr.com/ical_sun.php?start=&end=&lat=45.58753958079636&lon=-122.58886098861694&rise_off=&set_off=&sunrise=on&sunset=on&description=&zone=Asia/Hong_Kong&submit=submit
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Thanks for posting this. That calendar works for me as well. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but at least I know the process works & I just need to figure out what part of the link that's getting created for me isn't correct
 
In case anyone else has the same issue as I did. I don't know what I was doing wrong with the link I was creating, but copying the link niche made & then editing for my time zone, lat & long worked.

I think my issue might have come from adding a title or adding beginning & end dates. It doens't look like the data contained in that part of the string was in nichos, and now it works.

Thanks to everyone for their help.
 
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Hey folks, I just ran across this thread.

I'm the author of the pdxvr version of the online calculator. Glad to see it's still being used, I stopped using it like 8 years ago. In the last few months, I've had some feature requests that I've been adding here and there.

I did want to mention that it was never intended to be subscribed to as it causes problems with time offsets (and completely unknown bandwidth costs), it's best to download the ics and upload it to your calendar (test it first because it's a lot of hassle to delete 365 events).

I did set up an offset time in case you were having trouble with that though.

If you were subscribed to it, I recently changed it to force downloads - so your subscription probably broke. It's less support if I do it that way.
 
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