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[mfarazshakir (Mohammed S)]

Hi
As the days here in England are slowly getting longer, I notice my sunrise/sunset based automations don’t kick in at the right time. The automations based on sunset time kick in much earlier than the sunset time. I am having to re create my automation every few days for the latest sunset time to be updated.

It looks as if the sunset time is not fetched from the cloud and is static always.

Is anyone else seeing this ? Any recommended fix ?

[JDRoberts]

Known bug, there are already 3 or 4 threads about it.

SmartThings Sunrise/Sunset Automation Stopped Updating (March 2021)

I have had a SmartThings hub for several years with various light switches, outlets, etc. connected. And I have also had 2 automations for several years…1 that turns on some outdoor lights at Sunset, and 1 that turns those same outdoor lights off at Sunrise. This always worked great in the past, and updated dynamically each day based off of current sunrise/sunset times. Sometime in the last few months this stopped updating each day. It still turns the lights on or off, but it’s stuck at the same time each day. I tried deleting and recreating the automations and it would update to the sunrise/sunset time on the day that I recreated, but then gets stuck on that time going forward. I also logged into the IDE website, went to my location, clicked on List SmartApps, and I don’t see any ap…