Automation trace says conditions not met when all conditions are met

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Hi, I’m trying to figure out why the following automation isn’t working and could use some help.

here’s the automation code

id: '1705475658593'
alias: Dining off no presence
description: Between sunset and 7 am
trigger:
  - type: not_occupied
    platform: device
    device_id: ea397d9d58fdef3cd8536be113282c66
    entity_id: 29f3a18fc5170be80d0b826be32fb5c3
    domain: binary_sensor
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 10
      seconds: 0
condition:
  - condition: sun
    after: sunset
  - condition: time
    before: '07:00:00'
action:
  - service: light.turn_off
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id:
        - 42b4bbcabfbfad8256a4aa4ba333dc3c
        - 1c0c67bc3dc0d6669ef54a373e2ffa5c
mode: single

Here’s the result (the trigger was triggered and the conditions were met - 11:37 PM so after sunset and before 7 AM)

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The second condition doesn’t work the way you think it does.

This means between midnight and 07:00:00.

  - condition: time
    before: '07:00:00'

11:37 PM (23:37:00) fails that condition between it’s not between those two hours.

From the Time Condition’s documentation:

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To fix it, simply logically OR the two conditions.

condition:
  - or:
      - condition: sun
        after: sunset
      - condition: time
        before: '07:00:00'

By logically ORing them, only one of the two conditions needs to report true in order to continue. So 23:37:00 will pass the first condition, fail the second condition, but only one out two is all that’s needed so it will continue on to execute the actions.

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Oh wow! Thank you! I will try this tonight. Really appreciate the help