Add the ability to specify Sun Angle with "sunrise" or "sunset" triggers

Feature Requests
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The current “sun” trigger for automations is limited to the events “sunrise” and “sunset” with an offset. It would be benefitial to be able to supply a desired sun angle instead of “sunrise” or “sunset”.

There currently exists work around to get this behaviour (via the solar_angle or elevation attribute of the sun) however this has some shortcomings ( Solar angle or sunrise/sunset? ) it would be nice to have it built in and easily accessable

(Note: the FHEM module SUNRISE_EL https://wiki.fhem.de/wiki/SUNRISE_EL provides a nice way to reference target solar angles - however since HA already has the sun automation trigger platform it would probably be nice to add this functionality to the “sun” trigger)

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What is wrong with using the elevation of the sun?

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  1. It does not work correctly when HA is restarted (see Solar angle or sunrise/sunset? as referenced in my starting post or Sun elevation trigger not working)
  2. It is non obvious - if the sun is such a prominent trigger platform it should be able to provide more than just non configurable sunrise and sunset events.
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frz,
I understand your point but this is just the same for any arbitrary multi-state requirement.
I have time of day states for light levels (3 off) and heating times (user configurable and 5 off (which are different weekday/weekend))
From a restart, how is the system to know what segment it is supposed to be in ?
Until the next trigger occurs or you (having restarted HA) select it ?
If I think it important, I will select the segment, if not it just goes to the default till the next trigger which is always less than 10 hours, so I don’t lose out much.
Mutt