Rules API Syntax for Using Sunset/Sunrise with a Motion Detector

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Hi @cabrioartie Welcome to the Community! Looking at what you want to do, If you go through the API documentation you can check the rules creation part description, you can create a between clause using the time data type, which accepts the following values:

“Now”, “Midnight”, “Sunrise”, “Noon”, “Sunset”

Something like the following might be useful for you, of course if you want more than one condition, then you’ll need the and clause.

{
"name": "If the time is between sunset and sunrise",
"actions": [
    {
        "if": {
            "between": {
                "value": {
                	"time": {
                		"timeZoneId": "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires",
                		"reference": "Now"
                	}
                },
                "start": {
                    "time": {
                    	"timeZoneId": "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires",
                		"reference": "Sunset"
                    }
                },
                "end": {
                	"time": {
                    	"timeZoneId": "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires",
                		"reference": "Sunrise"
                    }
                }
            },
            "then": [
                {
                    "command": {
                        "devices": [
                            "2316d9b8-8bc3-4ecd-af1d-94096fe9eaa9"
                        ],
                        "commands": [
                            {
                                "component": "main",
                                "capability": "switch",
                                "command": "on",
                                "arguments": []
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }
]

}

Please let me know if this is useful for your use case.
Regarding the errors, they are also described in the documentation, but as a personal experience I recommend you to use a JSON parser to check the format, which is where the most common errors are.
And you’ll get a message similar to this one:

{
"requestId": "606784EB-A493-4794-A8BF-46FA1E66ABBD",
"error": {
    "code": "ConstraintViolationError",
    "target": null,
    "message": "The request is malformed.",
    "details": [
        {
            "code": "BodyMalformedError",
            "target": "",
            "message": "Malformed body on line 4",
            "details": []
        }
    ]
}
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