[Bug Report] Vacation Lighting Director not starting at sunset

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I've had the VLD set up for quite some time to activate lights at sunset when the HE is in AWAY mode. This used to work just fine but a while (maybe six months) ago it stopped working reliably. Mostly, nothing happens - no lights come on. I would try rebooting the hub and sometimes that would help, but not reliably,

The other day on a whim I changed it to turn on the lights at a specific time rather than at sunset. That was the only change,. And now it works. So, it seems that the sunset event is no longer being handled properly.

The HE is fully up to date. I've also checked the hub settings. It has the correct local time, the time displayed for sunset is correct, etc. I can see the sunset event recorded in the log, but the VLD no longer seems to respond to that. But it does respond correctly now that I have the lights turn on at 7:45pm.

So, it's not a huge issue as there is a reasonable workaround, but something, somewhere is broken.

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@nh.schottfam can maybe help. Looks like they were managing the code before.

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Do you have any full logs on the operation with sunset enabled?

There has not been changes to the code in quite some time, so logs will help show what events are happening (or not happening).

I would HPM repair to ensure you are up to date, and check the settings in VLD app and done/next your way out.

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I’m also having this same issue. It’s driving me crazy!!

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Mines working fine... try putting in an offset i read that without it sunset is not working. Mine is +60 minutes if yiu don't want sn offset put 0

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I've just had to set my vacation lighting director schedule to Sunset with a Zero offset, as negative offsets for end and start times were not working. Once I set them to Zero they started working again.