Turn off a lamp at sunrise but not before 8 o'clock

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1

Hello,

I want to turn off a lamp at sunrise. But if that is earlier than 8 o’clock in the morning, it may not go out until 8 o’clock in the morning.
To achieve this I have created the code below. But when I execute this the light still goes off at sunrise and not at 8 o’clock. Anyone have any idea why this turns off at sunrise?

description: ""
triggers:
  - event: sunrise
    trigger: sun
    offset: "00:31:00"
    variables:
      is_true: "{{ now() > today_at('08:00') }}"
      mode: turn_off
  - at: "08:00:00"
    trigger: time
    variables:
      is_true: "{{ is_state('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') }}"
      mode: turn_off
  - event: sunset
    trigger: sun
    offset: "-01:00:00"
    variables:
      is_true: "{{ is_state('sun.sun', 'below_horizon') }}"
      mode: turn_on
conditions: []
actions:
  - action: switch.{{ mode }}
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      device_id: 4f5df7ec56f47c717fa0252ea50dbec7
mode: single

Also, this should turn on at sunset. But that part does work.

2

Because you have no conditions. It will turn off when the first trigger of the two “off” triggers happens.

You create an is_true variable but then don’t use it to do anything — I suspect you’ve done this via copy-paste-modify, and I’m guessing the original was one of @123’s. Use this condition block, which tests whether is_true is true.

conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: "{{ is_true }}"

Your mixture of “31 minutes before after sunrise” and “above_horizon” make me wonder if there’s a set of circumstances where it won’t turn off. I think you’re OK though.

3

Ah ok, thanks, I missed that bit of conditions “copy past…” :frowning:

And I see your point about “31 minutes before sunrise” and “above_horizon” I need to look into how I can solve that.

4

You could use sun.sun’s elevation attribute as a measurable and testable threshold value.

Trigger:

Condition:

5

Thanks, I’ll try this out.

6

Simply for my understanding…In the first step, you want a light to turn off at sunrise unless it’s before 8:00 AM. If sunrise is after 8AM you want the light to go out at 8AM, correct?