Looking for before sunset and after sunset

[FTimpani]

Hello,

I’m going to try and explain my question correctly here so stay with me.

I am looking to have a certain action within a rule in rule machine to only fire if the time is before sunset. I am not looking for between sunrise and sunset and I’m not looking for between sunset/sunrise and another time.
I simply want to use “if” before sunset the trigger a certain action.

I used to use webcore and the before sunset, after sunset, before sunrise and after sunrise option was there. I can’t find those option in a conditional if within Hubitat rule machine. I am only finding between certain times option.

[calinatl]

I think you will need to define between times, because EVERY time is before some sunset. Even if sunset is at 7:30pm and it is currently 7:45pm, it is still before sunset tomorrow.

Would defining the condition as between 12:01 am and sunset work for your use case? Or even take the latest sunset of the year at your location, and define the condition as between latest sunset of year + 1 minute and sunset.

[jason12]

I would use a virtual switch or variable. Every Sunset switch turns on, or variable goes to 1. Sunrise, it switches back off or variable to zero.

Then you can just use variable 0 or 1, or virtual switch on or off as the test in your rules depending on what time segment you are looking for.

Keep it simple.