Sunrise not working

Questions & Help
1

Hi,

I have Homey 2.1.2 with X10 light switches. The flows for sunset/sunrise worked flawlessly till 2 weeks ago (ca.)
In the evening, the lights go on perfectly, but the lights don’t go off after sunrise. This normally worked fine. The sun rises in the Netherlands before 6 AM atm, but my lights stay on all day.
The X10 controller is working fine since manual on/off work fine, and also the lights go on by sunset.

I already created new flows, but still the issue persist.

Hope you can help me.

2

There are (at least) three possible causes for this problem:

  • the “sunrise” trigger doesn’t work
  • the X10 action doesn’t work
  • the entire flow doesn’t work

You have to find out which of these is causing your problem, because the solution depends on it.

So:

  • do other flows using the “sunrise” trigger still work?
  • what happens if you test the flow?
3

Hi Robert,

I was just looking at the time of sunrise here in NL. That is 05:39. I have a flow where the lights go on at 06:00, till sunrise. It’s spring now, so the 06:00 on happens AFTER sunrise… stupid me…
I changed the lights on to 05:00, and I assume this issue is solved now. The sunrise will not be earlier than 05:00 ever in NL so that should not be an issue anymore.

This issue is closed.

Thanks for you help, I needed it to think about this issue and you made me do that.

Kind regards,

Ronald

4

You could prevent switching it on in the first place by checking if sunrise already happened. Then it won’t consume energy for nothing for some time… :innocent:

5

Good one. Added the option.

Thanks.