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This happened to me so many times. Like when multiple users asked me to add monitor brightness dimming when the sky is covered with clouds in the Location Mode
by alin23 5y ago
This happened to me so many times.
Like when multiple users asked me to add monitor brightness dimming when the sky is covered with clouds in the Location Mode of my app for controlling monitors: Lunar (https://lunar.fyi https://lunar.fyi)
Turns out cloud cover reported by weather APIs isn't a good predictor of the ambient light. The feature was so useless (and expensive because weather APIs are not cheap) that it never made it into a release.
What the users really wanted was an external ambient light sensor that they could place where they're working and have the app adjust the monitor based on that: https://lunar.fyi/sensor https://lunar.fyi/sensor
Even with the high entry barrier (buy sensor parts, assemble, flash firmware) it was still more accurate and used by more people than the location based approach.
- tpxl 5y ago> expensive because weather APIs are not cheap Just FYI, you can get free hourly (or 30/15 minute, I forget) cloud coverage data from the likes of EUMETSAT (and equivalent US/asian agencies).
- alin23 5y agoThanks for the info! I'll keep that in mind for future projects. Since then I also found Open Meteo (https://open-meteo.com/en/docs https://open-meteo.com/en/docs) to be a nice alternative for smaller projects.