Is this trigger and AND or an OR?

Configuration
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- id: '1574608465562'
  alias: Living Floor Lamp Turn on at Sunset - Home Empty
  description: Living Floor Lamp Turn on at Sunset - Home Empty
  trigger:
  - event: sunset
    offset: +00:15:00
    platform: sun
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.people_home
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
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Triggers are OR. The automation will be triggered when either of those triggers happens. If you want the automation to do what your description and alias are saying, try this:

trigger:
- platform: sun
  event: sunset
  offset: +00:15:00
condition:
- condition: state
  entity_id: binary_sensor.people_home
  state: 'off'

(This is assuming off means people are not home. Change accordingly if that’s not the case.)

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thanks!
i was looking into it maybe I can merge some automations together

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I often write my automations so that if either trigger occurs, it’ll check states for both entities, and then finally do the action. Because what if it was already after 15 minutes post-sunset and then somebody comes home. Eg:

- id: '1574608465562'
  alias: Living Floor Lamp Turn on at Sunset - Home Empty
  description: Living Floor Lamp Turn on at Sunset - Home Empty
  trigger:
    - event: sunset
      offset: +00:15:00
      platform: sun
    - entity_id: binary_sensor.people_home
      from: 'off'
      platform: state
      to: 'on'
  condition:
    - condition: sun
      after: sunset
      after_offset: '00:15:00'
    - condition: state
      entity_id: binary_sensor.people_home
      state: 'on'
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: light.living_floor_lamp
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Yep, that’s a good way of doing it. Template triggers can also be used (in some cases) to accomplish the same thing.

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can someone kindly take a look at the following and let me know if there is something wrong because this is not being triggered?

- id: '1574608465562'
  alias: Living Floor Lamp Turn on
  description: Living Floor Lamp Turn on
  trigger:
  - event: sunset
    offset: +00:15:00
    platform: sun
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.people_home
    from: 'on'
    platform: state
    to: 'off'
  condition:
  - after: sunset
    after_offset: +00:15:00
    before: sunrise
    before_offset: -07:00:00
    condition: sun
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.people_home
    state: 'off'
  action:
  - device_id: 9e4e8d1dd6d942aeae2c6cc3bbec
    domain: switch
    entity_id: switch.living_floor_lamp
    type: turn_on
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It can’t be both after sunset and before sunrise. You need to make that sun condition an OR condition. See the second example here.

Although, why do you have such a large offset for sunrise? Almost looks like you’re trying to make the end time for that condition midnight (or close to it). If that’s the case you could just use after: sunset.

The bottom of the section I linked above also provides a chart showing when the sun conditions will be true.

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thanks … what I had in mind is; automation should work between sunset+offset and sunrise-offset.

removed the sunrise and it worked fine. thanks!