Hello, I’ve been trying to automate my Wiz lightstrip to turn 35 minutes before the sunset. Everything in the code is working except the trigger for sunset. I tried everything to get it working, searched many discussions but nothing seems to be working for me, the automation simply would not start. When the sunset setting is removed and I try to run the automation for example on specific time, everything is working fine. Do you have any ideas or a workaround that I could to get it working? Here’s my yaml code:
alias: Obývák - západ slunce
description: “”
trigger:
platform: sun
event: sunset
offset: “-00:35:00”
condition:
condition: or
conditions:
condition: state
entity_id: person.sarka_vaculikova
state: home
condition: state
entity_id: person.supra_household
state: home
enabled: true
action:
Maybe sounds like a silly question, but have you added/enabled the Sun-Integration /In /Settings/Devices & Services ?
BTW Did you use the UI-Editor or are you “trying your luck” in yaml ?
Yes, all sun related entities should be enabled. I used the UI editor and copied the code from “Edit in YAML” option.
I’m beginner, so I don’t know much about Home assitant, sorry about the unformatted code, you should see it in a proper way down
bellow:
alias: Obývák - západ slunce
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: sun
event: sunset
offset: "-00:35:00"
condition:
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: person.sarka_vaculikova
state: home
- condition: state
entity_id: person.supra_household
state: home
enabled: true
action:
- repeat:
until:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ state_attr('light.wiz_obyvakova_stena', 'brightness') | int / 255
* 100 >= 100 }}
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
data:
brightness_step_pct: 5
color_temp: 344
target:
entity_id: light.wiz_obyvakova_stena
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 45
milliseconds: 0
mode: single
And by above you mean you waited until 35min before Sunset, and it didn’t trigger(35min before) ?
PS: As i don’t know “where on earth you are” i just wonder, because here 35min before sunset is like hours ago !, so it wont trigger again before tomorrow
Yes, and that’s what it should do. I want it to start the automation 35 minutes before sunset, the lights should be slowly increasing the brightness until 100% when the sun sets and there’s not much of a light in my living room by that time, I live in Czech Republic. I’m kinda experimenting with it and maybe there will be some further customization according to the real-life expirience
go to your automation, click on trace , i assume you made this automation prior to 35min before sunset !, So you really “experienced” it didn’t “trigger”
In the “Trace” you’ll see the “last triggered time”
I created the automation few hours before the whole thing could even start to execute (it should start 35 minutes before 20:16 (sunset) on May 8th). I ran the automation manually to test it few times when it didn’t start on designated time, so the step details won’t give me any useful information now, I will need to wait until next sunset like you said. Everything else like my location a correct timezone should be configured correctly and I assume that the sunset entity should take that informations and run accordingly.
It will show if the automation was “executed” and if you click the Trace-TimeLine, you’ll se the rest
So yes it’s “Useful” Information, for you and for the person(s) who are willing to help you
But it’s ok if you don’t feel for “sharing” the information , better luck tommorow
I want to share the info and I believe it is very useful for diagnostics, but I played with it so that information may be disorted. Here is the screenshot:
