Astro binding fires events at 00:00:30

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Hi,

I still have the problem, that the Astro binding fires all events shortly past midnight. I have configured the items via PaperUI as well as via file:
DateTime Daylight_End “Tageslicht Ende [%1$tH:%1$tM]” { channel=“astro:sun:home:daylight#end” }

I’ve removed the binding, re-installed it, but to no avail.
Openhab 2.4.0 running on raspian.

Is there any alternative to the astro binding? At least I need something to set an string item, e.g. “Daymode” to 1 or 0, or “day” and “night”.

Has anyone an idea, what to check or to do?

Kind regards,
Michael

2

This is by design. So that the binding doesn’t conflict with other tasks perform on or shortly after midnight.

What are you trying to achieve?
Did you have a look at this DP: [Deprecated] Design Pattern: Time Of Day

3

Thanks for that info, I didn’t knew it before. That is exactly the idea, what I want to have.
But, what does it help when all sunrise and sunset events are triggered at 00:00:30?>

rule “Astro_SunHomeRise_Event_Start”
when
Channel ‘astro:sun:home:rise#event’ triggered START

4

They are not triggered at 00:30.
There are calculated and scheduled at that time. Nothing else nothing more.

5

Okay, how can I define a rule which is triggered at Sunrise and Sunset? Perhaps I just do it the wrong way.
Obviously, the rule definition I pasted above is not working.

6

See link above

7

Bear in mind that is not an event.
It is an Item with a steady state, a prediction.
So at 00:00:30, Astro sets up the Item for the day ahead.

Are you triggering rules from these changes?
You should look into the Astro events proper, which go off at e.g. daybreak

8

I now pasted the examples from the link above to my config, I will see what will happen…
My own rule is:

rule “Astro_SunHomeDaylight_Event_Start”
when
Channel ‘astro:sun:home:daylight#event’ triggered START
then
logInfo(“Astro_Daylight”, “astro:sun:home:daylight#event → START”)
end

and the log entry appears each night at 00:00:3x
The same with “rise” and “set”. I do not know, what I am doing wrong.

9

May we see your events.log for 00:00:3x ?

May we see the value of Items like Daylight_End? (probably in midnight events log already)

May we see your Astro location, in case it thinks you are at the pole?

For others reference, previous thread -

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Yes, sure:

openhab.log:2019-10-01 00:00:30.409 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-01 00:00:30.429 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-01 00:00:30.450 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-01 00:00:30.496 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:set#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-02 00:00:30.426 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-02 00:00:30.440 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-02 00:00:30.466 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-02 00:00:30.514 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:set#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-03 00:00:30.410 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-03 00:00:30.410 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-03 00:00:30.485 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-03 00:00:30.488 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:set#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-04 00:00:30.300 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-04 00:00:30.312 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->start
openhab.log:2019-10-04 00:00:30.335 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:rise#event->end
openhab.log:2019-10-04 00:00:30.377 [INFO ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.Astro] - astro:sun:home:set#event->end

The thing:

astro:sun:home [ geolocation=“51.43632,7.38792”, interval=600 ]

In the PaperUI I see times which seems to be somehow correct for sunrise and sunset.

Sunrise
Day 07:24
Sunset
Evening 17:02

Thank you for your interest in helping!

11

It may be a copy-paste artifact, but your Thing file excerpt has the “wrong kind of quotemarks” around location.

astro:sun:home [ geolocation=“51.43632,7.38792”, interval=600 ]

astro:sun:home [ geolocation="51.43632,7.38792", interval=600 ]
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