Not sure Sunrise didn't work

💡 Lighting
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Hello all,

Not sure why this RM Rule didn't turn off any lights at Sunrise as expected
The device events do show they came on at Sunset with the rule

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I converted this over to a "Simple Lighting" rule this morning but would still like to continue to learn

Thanks in advance
Rick

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I don’t see where you have any action set for False in your rule above… Therefore, it wouldn’t know what to do. Or am I missing something?

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The condition should be those lights turn on, Define Rule will be filled in automatically, and the actions should be turn on those lights. Then in the restrictions, you set only between two times, which is sunset and sunrise.

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That rule became true at sunset and turned on the lights. Then it became false at sunrise, but as pointed out above, you had no action specified for false. You would want to add the actions to take for false (sunrise). Because there are independent actions for true and false, you could do extra things at either event, not necessarily just the reverse of what was done upon true (sunset).

Note that Simple Lighting rule for this only allows for the symmetrical anti-action: Turn the same lights off at sunrise. So there may be a place for both approaches to sunset/sunrise type things. My rule of thumb would be to use the simpler automation if it fits the use case, and in this case that would be Simple Lighting.

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Thanks for the info. My mind didn’t go there since I was defining Sunset and Sunrise as the condition. I get it now

Thanks
Rick

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