Chameleon

Eduard Neculaesi

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Chameleon

Chameleon is an extension that changes the theme to a light or a dark one based on day/night hours provided in the settings or by calculating sunset/sunrise based on latitude and longitude provided in the settings.

Features

  • Change light/dark themes based on provided hours
  • Auto calculate the hours based on latitude/longitutde

Requirements

None

Extension Settings

  • chameleon.lightTheme: Light theme to be used during the day
  • chameleon.darkTheme: Dark theme to be used during the night
  • chameleon.day: A number representing the start of the day (24h format)
  • chameleon.night: A number representing the start of the night (24h format)
  • chameleon.latitude: Latitude of your position
  • chameleon.longitude: Longitude of your position

Notes

When latitude and longitude are set chameleon.day and chameleon.night have a number of options that can be set to get different hours, see below the available options and their meaning.

Property Description
sunrise sunrise (top edge of the sun appears on the horizon)
sunriseEnd sunrise ends (bottom edge of the sun touches the horizon)
goldenHourEnd morning golden hour (soft light, best time for photography) ends
solarNoon solar noon (sun is in the highest position)
goldenHour evening golden hour starts
sunsetStart sunset starts (bottom edge of the sun touches the horizon)
sunset sunset (sun disappears below the horizon, evening civil twilight starts)
dusk dusk (evening nautical twilight starts)
nauticalDusk nautical dusk (evening astronomical twilight starts)
night night starts (dark enough for astronomical observations)
nadir nadir (darkest moment of the night, sun is in the lowest position)
nightEnd night ends (morning astronomical twilight starts)
nauticalDawn nautical dawn (morning nautical twilight starts)
dawn dawn (morning nautical twilight ends, morning civil twilight starts)

Example Configurations

Manual hours

    {
        ....
        "chameleon.darkTheme": "...",
        "chameleon.lightTheme": "...",
        "chameleon.day": 8,
        "chameleon.night": 20
        ....
    }

Calculated hours

    {
        ....
        "chameleon.darkTheme": "...",
        "chameleon.lightTheme": "...",
        "chameleon.latitude": 44.426767,
        "chameleon.longitude": 26.102538
        ....
    }

Calculated hours with overriden night hour

    {
        ....
        "chameleon.darkTheme": "...",
        "chameleon.lightTheme": "...",
        "chameleon.latitude": 44.426767,
        "chameleon.longitude": 26.102538,
        "chameleon.night": 20
        ....
    }

Release Notes

1.1.0

  • Removed chameleon.time option
  • The time is automatically calulated whenever you have set the chameleon.latitude and chameleon.longitude options.
  • You can now override the automatically calculated hours by setting chameleon.day or chameleon.night to your preferred hours (e.g. have day hour be at sunrise and night hour be at 17 or any other hour)

1.0.0

Initial release!