Actual sunshine is a major factor in Evapotranspiration estimates. Any data from sunshine recorders or solar radiation measurements would be useful to optimize water usage at a more granular level.
Posted 6 years ago
Tim Roche, Official Rep
Thanks for your feature request, While it isn't in our product pipeline, we'll keep your usage case in mind for future products.
I absolutely miss a forecast of sunshine duration, mainly for heating control purposes like deciding wheter to heat the boiler or wait for the sun doing this...
Is that "usage case" as you call it still trapped in a mind or already released into productive freedom? Would be great to have such a forecast at hand!
Is that "usage case" as you call it still trapped in a mind or already released into productive freedom? Would be great to have such a forecast at hand!
The code sample at https://github.com/davemiedema/envirotranspiration will calculate how much sunshine happened yesterday. It could in theory do a prediction on the sunshine duration for the upcoming day if you had an hourly cloud cover prediction.
Thanks!
I actually wrote a python script to calculate total solar radiation based on lat/long, estimate the radiation at ground level based on the text strings in the historical data, and then estimate the amount of evaporation during the previous day. Maybe I will post it here so others can use it.
Dave
I actually wrote a python script to calculate total solar radiation based on lat/long, estimate the radiation at ground level based on the text strings in the historical data, and then estimate the amount of evaporation during the previous day. Maybe I will post it here so others can use it.
Dave
Hello Dave,
Could you post your script? My team is looking for that information.
Thank you!
Could you post your script? My team is looking for that information.
Thank you!
Yes! Thanks a lot :)