The option to turn lights on or off at sunrise/sunset is not working. If I set a specific time, the lights function perfectly.

So, gave it a two-week test. Turning on at a specific time has worked consistently.

@the_ringleader just take a chance to loose another day. Set one action to trigger 2 minutes after sunset and one 10 minutes before sunset and see if the actions trigger! Use offset! And use basic ST scheduling. If it doesn’t happen will owe you couple of beers!

[image] smart: Set one action to trigger 2 minutes after sunset and one 10 minutes before sunset and see if the actions trigger! Use offset! And use basic ST scheduling. Are you suggesting that using offsets “fixes” problems with sunrise and sunset schedules firing? Really want to know.

For me never failed unless there is a known outage! @ben: I don’t have any explanation for this. May be too many people set it at sunrise and sunset exact and somewhere along the way, they get queued up and there is a delay. I always check in the IDE, when the next runtime is My Locations -> SmartApps(6th Column) -> Click on the scheduled event (not hover) and it tells me when the next runtime is. It pretty much is triggered at that time. But at times I have seen it disappear mysteriously which indicates there is something wrong and I reschedule it and it fires.

This has never worked for me - I’ve just tried adding the offset to see if that helps. From the IDE - does the “Prev Run time” seem suspicious here? This never works for me - I want it to set the mode to “Day” at sunrise and “Night” and sunset to control a motion sensor… Scheduled Jobs Handler Next Run Time Prev Run Time Status Schedule sunriseHandler 2015-02-07 6:59:00 AM EST 1969-12-31 6:59:59 PM EST WAITING 0 59 6 ? * * America/New_York sunsetHandler 2015-02-06 5:22:00 PM EST 1969-12-31 6:59:59 PM EST WAITING 0 22 17 ? * * America/New_York Settings List Events Name Type Value phoneNumber phone "" sendPushMessage enum No sunriseMode mode Day sunriseOff capability.switch "" sunriseOffsetDir enum Before sunriseOffsetValue text 00:02 sunriseOn capability.switch "" sunsetMode mode Night

@stephensuarez Boss, its a known issue about the Prev. Run time. and for an explanation why 1969… [image] Troubleshooting scheduled event failures Writing SmartApps This is common Java programming error when converting Unix (epoch) time to Java Date object. The conversion requires explicit casting of epoch time to long data type which is often overlooked and results in incorrect Date. I believe this is just a UI issue though. I don’t know what I’m looking at in the last column labeled ‘schedule’. You’re looking at cron schedule.

Thanks Ron - so that prev run time isn’t causing the problems (but makes trouble shooting more difficult). Still, the morning mode is never being triggered. We’ll see what happens tomorrow now that I’ve added the offset.

if anyone is still paying attention . … . a slightly more germane explanation for the funny prev run time can be found a little later in the same thread linked by @smart. from @baldeagle072: “Actually, that scheduled job has never run. Every day, you are creating a new sunrise and sunset time. When the app schedules the new job, it deletes the old job and creates a new job. If it has never run before, my guess is it returns a -1 unix time which is 1 second before Jan 1, 1970 UTC. I think if you look at a schedule that happened already and hasn’t been rescheduled, it would show the previous run time.” This explanation really helped me (better) understand scheduling in ST.

I have been using sunset as a trigger (set up with a hello home action through the regular mobile app, not a custom smartapp). Worked fine every day for about 10’days, then failed today. I’m putting in a support ticket.

A little bird told me that if you use an offset with your sunrise and sunset events, they run a bit more reliably. This is due to them not trying to run at the same time as everyone else in your timezone. Note: this is the source of the longstanding status message at: http://status.smartthings.com

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@stephensuarez Boss, its a known issue about the Prev. Run time. and for an explanation why 1969…

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