Automation only to happen when the sun is down, but it doesn't work?

Configuration
1

I’ve made an automation to close the blind in the bedroom, but only if the window is closed.
To supplement that, I made this small automation to close the blind if the window is closed, and if I add the sunset / sunrise conditions, nothing happens.

- id: '1570991270753'
  alias: Blind - close if window is closed, and the sun is already down
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.vindue_sovevaerelse
    for: 0:00:15
    from: 'on'
    platform: state
    to: 'off'
  condition:
  - after: sunset
    before: sunrise
    condition: sun
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id: cover.rullegardin_i_sovevaerelse
    service: cover.close_cover

If I change the condition to check for below_horizon then it works, but then I can’t make use the offset.

- id: '1570991270753'
  alias: Blind - close if window is closed, and the sun is already down
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.vindue_sovevaerelse
    for: 0:00:15
    from: 'on'
    platform: state
    to: 'off'
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    state: below_horizon
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id: cover.rullegardin_i_sovevaerelse
    service: cover.close_cover

Shouldn’t I be able to use the sunset / sunrise as conditions this way?

2

The documentation shows an example using both after: sunset and before: sunrise. However, it doesn’t combine them into a single condition but as two separate conditions with a logical OR.

condition:
  condition: or  # 'when dark' condition: either after sunset or before sunrise - equivalent to a state condition on `sun.sun` of `below_horizon`
  conditions:
    - condition: sun
      after: sunset
    - condition: sun
      before: sunrise
3

Hi @123
So two problems.

When I was still at uni (100 years ago :-D), we had boolean math, so with that knowledge, the logic doesn’t add up. Well it depends on how HA defines the day and sunrise/sundown.
If you only consider the sunrise / sundown within a day it can be an OR, otherwise it must be an AND.
In some parts of the world (nothern/southern) the sun doesn’t set/rise within 24 hours (midsommer/midwinter), so with that in mind, you are always before a sunrise OR after a sunset?

So what does HA do?

And the GUI allows one to mark both settings in one statement, that is clearly a fault then.