GSzabados
March 3, 2021, 2:36pm
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That one is a years old topic. The issue what you are referring to is a quite new one, and many people faces it.
Some heads up what you are facing:
I think you may be conflating two issues.
In the legacy environment (Groovy Device Handlers, Smart Lighting, webCoRE etc) the key to sunrise/sunset is the Weather Station app which is now installed as a child of Smart Lighting when required, having previously been a child of the app that ran Routines.
In the current, ‘new’ environment the sunrise/sunset times have a different source. Automations don’t update the times every day, they wait two or three days for them to drift a minute or two and then make a correction. This correction hasn’t been happening lately.
Otherwise other topics with the issue:
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…
I created a couple of automations using the sunrise and sunset time object and noticed that after I’ve created the automation, the time it triggers never actually updates inline with the real sunrise or sunset. It’s like it takes the values for that particular day and uses them forever. I know that my location is configured correctly, and that the ST hub knows what the sunrise/sunset values should be because I can see those updating in the IDE, but it’s clearly ignoring those for triggering automations. Is anyone else having this issue, or is there anyone from SmartThings who can take a look or offer some advice please?
To confirm the problem, I have set up a test automation which toggles a virtual switch on or off allowing me to keep a record of when it would trigger the event every day.…
Otherwise, @Brad_ST , @jody.albritton , @garrett.kranz , @blake.arnold could one of you put out a sticky announcement, that ST is working this issue. Multiple topics are popping up day-by-day since the previous app update.
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