Lights off when no movement

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I’m not seeing anything wrong with your automation. Not sure what to tell you. If it were me, I’d be checking home-assistant.log to see what actually happened at sunset.

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But the thing is that the two other lamps are only suppose to be switched on after sunset and if a light is already on. Don’t need them before after dark, but sometimes we have to adjust the living room lights manually.

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It never fired according to the log

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It could also be that you are using the trigger of at sunset, and the condition of below horizon?

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I have no clue, what should the automation looks like then?
I am open to everything as long as it does what I want :stuck_out_tongue:

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At sunset sun.sun changes to below_horizon. But I suppose there could be some small delay between sunset and the time sun.sun’s state changes in the state machine. So maybe it would be better to use the following conditions:

  condition:
    - condition: or
      conditions:
        - condition: sun
          after: sunset
        - condition: sun
          before: sunrise
    - condition: state
      entity_id: light.fibaro_system_fgd212_dimmer_2_level_7
      state: 'on'
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And according to the log, or history, was light.fibaro_system_fgd212_dimmer_2_level_7 on at sunset?

Regarding the conditions in my other reply, that’s the way I was going to write it originally, but I thought using below_horizon was simpler. But @talkshowonmute26 has a point and that might not work. So try it with the new conditions.

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Again thanks a lot for taking time to look into this again. I will try the new code and check if it works tomorrow.

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From everything I can see, I believe @pnbruckner 's solution will work, and do everything you want it to.
Let us know tomorrow

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Hi again,

I am unable to be home before sunset to check if the code works or not :(.
I think I need one more automation which turn on other lights when I switch on the living room lights. How could I do that?

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You don’t need to be home. That’s what the Logbook and home-assistant.log are for. :wink:

That is a very basic automation. Have you read the docs starting here yet? I don’t mind helping with tougher questions, but with a little reading you should be able to answer that question yourself. :slight_smile:

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Well the automation should not run if the living room light is not on.
I guess the log wont show anything since it did not run as living room lights is not on if we are not home.

Thank you very much for the docs, I will explore that closer for sure :smiley:

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