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I have an issue that the Smart Lighting automations have started working randomly since February 1st 2022.

Since i could not find an offline capable hourly trigger in smartthings, I built a combo of two virtual switches:

• tictoc1 has a Smart Lighting power allowance of 1 minute and switches on when tictoc2 switches off
• tictoc2 has a Smart Lighting power allowance of 59 minutes and switches on when tictoc1 switches off

Every day i have “seeded” it by switching tictoc2 on at 00:01.

This has been working like clockwork (pun intended) for years and I could use them for hourly checks and automations. I understand from other threads here that Smart Lighting is being phased out. I could understand them not working at all, but they kind of work, but with completely random timing now. This is just plain stupid.

Up to 2022/02/01 20:00 (UTC+02:00):

After that, completely random.

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After 2022/02/01 20:00 (UTC+02:00), completely random:

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Smart lighting automations stopped working (Feb 2022)

My smart lighting automation for my outside sunset to sunrise has not worked the last couple of days. Anyone else having an issue with this? I tried re-setting the hub and toggling it off then on but still no luck. I may just delete it and re-do the automation but figured I would ask here first!

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What baffles me in this case is that they are working with totally random delays. There are no other automations switching these. I would understand if they did not work at all. But as you can see from my second pic, the switch comes on and off at totally random times.

This one should ALWAYS switch off in 1 minute (and from the other trigger back on in 59 minutes), but so far today:

As I am triggering my house heating based on this, you can understand my frustration.

But probably time to move on, I hate the limitations of smartthings anyway and move to home assistant has been long overdue.

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I can imagine how frustrating it can be. Here is the direct link from the thread above where they are working on a fix…

Smart lighting automations stopped working (Feb 2022)

Thanks for linking the other post @JDRoberts, I hadn’t seen this thread earlier. I’ll advocate for hotfixing this issue and may reach out to some of the posters here to potentially receive an early firmware update to aid in confirming that we have the right root cause analysis and fix for the issue. Based on what we’ve seen, we believe that the portions of local smart lighting automations that are not working or which may work only after a period of time are those that trigger based on a time condition rather than a direct device event. This appears to be a bug in the hub software missed during our testing – in setups with devices triggering events on a frequent basis as is the case in many of our test setups, internal beta, and external beta populations the problem is less obvious or n…