LIghts Off Rule Machine Issue

I have an issue with several lights turning off at a specified time using RM. They worked for the longest time but last couple of months it stopped. They still turn on at a set time, but stay on now.

They’re Lutron Caseta light switches.

For a long time I had one rule to turn them on, and another rm to turn them off.
Then I tried turning them on at a set time and then off within the same rule (deleting the separate rule) but it never worked. So I went back to the separate rules again and still encountering issues. I just tried enabling on off optimization — not even clear what that does but hoping it will work later tonight when they’re supposed to go off again.

Attached are my latest settings. Please advise:


Ok the probem is your timing is overlapping... You have the light turning ON at sunset -20 but having it turn off at 7:30 pm. The sunset -20 in your time zone overlaps with 7:30 and that's taking president. So either set your on at 7 or whenever and your off at 7:30

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Well that makes me feel stupid. And probably deservedly so. Will redo this thank you.

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Nah, we've all been there :slight_smile: We're all here to help one another.

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Honestly I had played with the time before I had posted this so I’m not sure if that was the issue. Some other things have been acting weird lately.

Like What?

I’m a long time user now with hundreds of devices. I set things up a while ago and promptly chose to forget them aside from updates this past year.

Revised RM lead to a few weird things. Echo speaks was acting up, I’ve had motion sensors and my keen vents just act all buggy. Everything was working like a champ for the longest time. Not that big of a deal but these things were working just fine.

Can you post a copy of your z-wave details page? Also did you do the z-wave firmware update? (Separate from the platform update)

Echo speaks can be wonky. I would post in the echo speaks thread for that.

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Just seeing this today but thanks for the assistance. I had to remember what was even posted before—I had most of the rules sorted out since then. One thing that was acting wonky was some of my Iris v1 plugs as I noted there was some major interference. Removing them seemed to resolve a LOT of issues. I can’t say for certain that this was the case with this issue, but I wouldn’t be surprised with so much going on. As another precaution, I ended up removing any unused drivers and apps.