@bravenel - I think this may be a bug.
I have this master rule to trigger some other rules to close curtains shown below. It triggers at 16:45. The first action is to wait until the time is between sunset +15 and 22:00 (the timeout on the wait is that so that in summer, the actions will occur no later than 21:30 regardless of sunset time). The proceeding actions are to run the actions of other rules:
This has been running fine for months so I don't understand why it didn't complete today. The logs below show the time being scheduled for 16:45, the rule triggering, the expression becoming true but non of the actions occurred:
It seems as though the timeout in the wait for expression is not working as it should. I'd expect it to wait until the expression is true and if it doesn't become true within 4:45 minutes - carry out the actions anyway. What's happening is that it's always worked up to and including Thursday when the expression was already true at the time of trigger (16:45). Since Thursday when sunset has been later, the timeout is being added as an additional wait. I can see this in the logs as the actions are occurring after 4 hours 45.
In essence it's doing:
- Wait for expression - time between sunset+15 and 22:00 (timeout 4:45)
- Expression now true
- Wait 4:45
- Do actions
Here is the evidence. It works on the 25th when the expression is already true ('not waiting') but on the 26th when it needed to wait 1 minute for the expression to be true, it incorrectly adds the 4:45 timeout as another wait ('Expression now true: Between two times is true, waiting for duration 4:45:00):
