tjreishus
July 30, 2026, 4:50pm
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Currently I have a trigger to set light “ON” percent based of sun degree range 0-12 percent. It took me a while to figure it out. instead of degree range it would be nice to be able to set a range from sunrise to “x” minutes past sunrise.
The Sunrise/sunset trigger, which allows time-based offsets, is still available… it was just left out of the new picker.
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What has happened to the Sun integration?
I have existing automations where I am using a duration offset for sunrise / sunset events like this
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Trying to make a new condition on a new rule and there are no longer Sun conditions avaliable
Trying to make a trigger and only absolute sunrise or sunset triggers can be used.
It makes no sense that there is no option to use anything but the absolute value
The Sun documentation says
" The classic sun trigger described here is still suppor…
Yeah, I also listed those in my edit above.
Somehow when looking in the Automations link, there is no pointer to the newly added purpose specific triggers… not even when you click through. Which doesnt help spread the news.
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But, reason I posted, was that the original trigger OP used should still be valid. If that doesnt trigger, something else must be off
maybe I misread myself, and OP only found that the offsets didnt yet work…
o well. they soon …
Also, based on this PR , it looks like time-based offsets will be available for the purpose specific sun triggers pretty soon.