Astro Binding not triggering in rules

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I am testing the Astro binding on OH2 and created the following rule. I know the email is working because I have it set up the same way in other rules that are working. Am I missing something? Also I noticed in all the documentation that people usually refer to the “240daf21” as home or local. Why is that different here? When I pull up the channel for sunrise for instance I see “astro:sun:240daf21:rise#start”

rule "X"
when
        Channel 'astro:sun:240daf21:rise#start' triggered START
then
        sendMail("email@example.com","Critical Alert From OpenHab","Your Sunrise Event Just triggered X")
end

I am good data when looking at it on Paper UI.

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2

I would guess that it’s the “240daf21” that’s wrong. Look in your logs around the rise/set time, and see what the correct location is.

PS: if you set your LAT/LONG in Openhab settings, then you can use ‘local’ in the location.

3

hmmm ok I see this in my logs… I will try the local thing and see what happens…

2018-04-29 16:20:27.402 [INFO ] [thome.binding.astro.internal.job.Job] - Scheduled Astro event-jobs for thing astro:sun:local
2018-04-29 16:20:28.917 [INFO ] [thome.binding.astro.internal.job.Job] - Scheduled Astro event-jobs for thing astro:sun:240daf21
2018-04-29 16:20:29.074 [INFO ] [thome.binding.astro.internal.job.Job] - Scheduled Astro event-jobs for thing astro:moon:local
4

The trigger should be

when
  Channel "astro:sun:240daf21:rise#event" triggered START
then
...

The rise#start channel is just the DateTime of the sunrise, to trigger rules you use the rise#event channel.

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How would it know if I want to trigger at the start or end of the rise event for instance? They are about 3 minutes apart.

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That’s what the triggered START or triggered END are for :slight_smile:

7

As the sun is not a dot but a circle (treated as 2D…), the sun is “passing” the boundaries, so start is first contact with boundary, end is end of contact with boundary :slight_smile:

Please be aware that the trigger is the event channel, not a time/date channel. The event channels are gray in the thing configurationUnbenannt2

8

Ok that clears it up! Thanks for the help. Will try this out shortly and report back.

9

Thanks for the clarification! Just had my first Astro triggered event! Everything worked as expected. Also I did two rules so I tested it with both the local and the “240daf21” and it worked on both!