Switch webcam by time

[MrData]

I have 2 webcams. One is an outdoor cam and has IR lights, the other is an indoor cam looking out of a window. Both of them show pretty much the same view but I wanted to see if I could use a conditional statement to switch between the two based on time of day.
Found some PHP help on the Wide World of Webs and gave it a try. This seems to work nicely....

<?php
// webcam settings file
// Version: 6.0
// Created: 2020-02-27 00:12:49
date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$now = new Datetime("now");
$begintime = new DateTime('06:00');
$endtime = new DateTime('17:00');

if($now >= $begintime && $now <= $endtime){
$webcamURLs = 'http://foo.bar.net:3415/cam_2.cgi';
} else{
$webcamURLs = 'http://foo.bar.net:3415/cam_1.cgi';
}
$webcamTitles = "Backyard Webcam";
$webcamPositions = '';
$refreshInterval = '1';
$webcamBlockOpacity = false;
$mapPosition = 'BR';
?>

Switches to cam 2 during the day and cam 1 at night. Of course I'm going to have to manually adjust $begintime and $endtime as the year goes on.
Perhaps there is a way to make this conditional on sunrise and sunset times.
Gotta believe those values are already floating around in Meteotemplate somewhere, just have to figure out how to access them.

[Asobig]

The webcam plugin has that routine.
It is in the file 'updateWebcam.php', perhaps you can modify that to your needs?

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if($recordDay==false){
					$updateWebcam = true; // interval passed, recording enabled during night as well
				}
				else{ // only record during the day
					$dateTimeZone = new DateTimeZone($stationTZ);
					$dateTime = new DateTime("now", $dateTimeZone);
					$my = $dateTimeZone->getOffset($dateTime);
					$offset = $my/3600;
					
					$sunRiseTodayHours = date_sunrise(time(),SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING,$stationLat,$stationLon,90.5,$offset);
					$sunSetTodayHours = date_sunset(time(),SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING,$stationLat,$stationLon,90.5,$offset);
					
					$sunRiseTimestamp = strtotime(date("Y")."-".date('m')."-".date('d')." ".$sunRiseTodayHours) - (60*60); // subtract one hour to start recording before sunrise
					$sunSetTimestamp = strtotime(date("Y")."-".date('m')."-".date('d')." ".$sunSetTodayHours) + (60*60); // add one hour to stop recording after sun set
					
					if(time()>=$sunRiseTimestamp && time()<=$sunSetTimestamp){
						$updateWebcam = true;
					}
					else{
						echo "Night time.<br>";
					}

[MrData]

Thanx, I'll look into that.
I'm going to try this for now.........

date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');
$now = date('H:i');
$sunrise = date_sunrise(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 43.1141, -88.5101, 90, -6);
$sunset = date_sunset(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 43.1141, -88.5101, 90, -6);

if($now >= $sunrise && $now <= $sunset){
$webcamURLs = 'http://foo.bar:3415/cam_2.cgi';
} else{
$webcamURLs = 'http://foo.bar:3415/cam_1.cgi';
}