Condition - between sunset and sunrise (both offset)

[josh]

As you noted, the device event would be the trigger and you could use an IF Condition within the rule to restrict the execution.

You can edit the condition to use OR for before sunrise or after sunset. This post with the visualization might be helpful to you.

@josh

It’s one of those “head scratchers” where visualizing it sometimes helps.

So in the original example, it’s not possible for the time (on a single day) to be both after sunset AND before sunrise, so we have to use OR:

In your example, the time we are looking for is between two times on the same day, so we use AND:

The logs should have the Runtime Data showing the various states that were used up to the comparison failure, but yes, you will have to compare those manually to your rule conditions.