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Hi,

I am trying to get the below to work. The first part works (holiday mode sequence Boolean - on) but it doesn’t turn off at 23:45:00 nor does the sunrise command work after.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

alias: Holiday Mode
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: sun
    event: sunset
    offset: '-1:00:00'
condition: []
action:
  - service: input_boolean.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: input_boolean.holiday_mode_sequence
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: '23:45'
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    target:
      entity_id: input_boolean.holiday_mode_sequence
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 10
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: script.all_lighting_off
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: sun
        event: sunrise
        offset: '-00:30:00'
  - service: cover.open_cover
    target:
      entity_id:
        - cover.kt_roller_blind
        - cover.lr_curtains
        - cover.mb_roller_blind
mode: single
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Are there any errors in your log? Maybe insert some notifications between steps to be sure which steps you’re reaching.

I don’t immediately see a problem with the first wait_for_trigger, but the second one won’t work, because I think you’re assuming this will be for the next sunrise, but it won’t. The sun integration gives values for the same day. You would need to use the sun2 integration. Personally, I wouldn’t have such a long-running automation, but make it a separate automation instead (which, for one, will survive possible restarts of your system).

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I would use a Choose action with multiple triggers. It helps prevent issues with restarts/reloads that your original would have due to the waits, solves the sun.sun issue Pieter brought up, and keeps all the functions in one automation.

alias: Holiday Mode
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: sun
    event: sunset
    offset: '-1:00:00'
    id: Sequence On
  - platform: time
    at: '23:45'
    id: Sequence Off
  - platform: sun
    event: sunrise
    offset: '-00:30:00'
    id: Sunrise
condition: []
action:
  - choose:
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: Sequence On
      sequence:
      - service: input_boolean.turn_on
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.holiday_mode_sequence
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: Sequence Off
      sequence:
      - service: input_boolean.turn_off
        target:
          entity_id: input_boolean.holiday_mode_sequence
      - delay:
        hours: 0
        minutes: 0
        seconds: 10
        milliseconds: 0
      - service: script.all_lighting_off
    - conditions:
      - condition: trigger
        id: Sunrise
      sequence:
      - service: cover.open_cover
        target:
          entity_id:
            - cover.kt_roller_blind
            - cover.lr_curtains
            - cover.mb_roller_blind
    default: []
mode: single
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This is great, thanks!