Two Rules set to the same time?

I have a rule that fires at sunset. Nothing special, sets a bunch of lights on or to a dim level.

I have a second sunset rule that checks to see if a wall dimmer in the living room is already on and if so, leaves it alone and does not dim it to its sunset level. The idea is when I have people over sitting in the living room, I don't want the lights to dim down at sunset (they already think I'm too much of a geek).

So my question is if you have 2 rules firing at the exact same time (in this case, sunset) is there any way to control or just determine which rule runs first?

I can probably fix this by have the second rule run at sunset+1 minute, but just curious if there is another way to handle this.

You can call (run) the second rule from within the first rule. That'll set the order.

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Wow, didn't know that was possible. Where in rule setup is that found?

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@JoeJ Make sure to delete the trigger from your second rule.

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Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it.