General guidelines for restart-proofing automations?

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Evolution of an automation. Turn a light on/off at sunset/sunrise

A brief tutorial demonstrating how to create a single automation to control a light that is able to handle missed events (i.e. Home Assistant is off when the primary trigger(s) occur). Implemented as two automations:

Turn on a light just before sunset

- alias: 'Scheduled Exterior On' trigger: - platform: numeric_state entity_id: sun.sun attribute: elevation below: 1.8 action: - service: light.turn_on target: entity_id: light.exterior

Turn off a light just b…