Astro sunrise / sunset stops working after a couple times

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1

I’m trying to trigger an outdoor light to come on/off at sunrise / sunset. I’ve installed the openHAB2 Astro binding, and added the rules:

rule "Turn porch light off at Sunrise"
when
    Channel 'astro:sun:local:rise#event' triggered START
then    
    logInfo("rules", "It's sunrise, I'm turning off the porch light")
    sendCommand(outdoorFrontPorchLight,0)
end

rule "Turn porch light on at Sunset"
when
    Channel 'astro:sun:local:set#event' triggered START
then
    logInfo("rules", "It's sunset, I'm turning the porch light on")
    sendCommand(outdoorFrontPorchLight,23)
end

It worked a couple times, then stopped working, I restarted openhab, it worked once more, then stopped. Any thoughts? Is there a better way to trigger this?

2

Which openHAB2 release are you using? (stable 2.0, 2.1 or snapshot 2.2)

From what I remember, there were some issues with the Astro binding and the scheduler but they were fixed recently.

I didn’t follow these threads closely since I don’t use the Astro channel triggers in my rules but if you search the forum for “astro +scheduler +full” you may find some relevant info (not sure if this is connected to the issue that you are experiencing… you need to check your logs for more hints)

Ps: Your rule triggers look good to me

3

I’m on ‘stable’ so I’m not getting any updates., I’ve switched to using the 1.9 Astro binding, so perhaps that will work for me.

4

Hi,

See my post in this topic. Afaik the issue has not yet been fixed.

I’ve created an issue on Github for it.

5

Yes, that’s it @Dries … I’m hoping switching to the 1.9 binding helps, I’ll let you know tomorrow

6

@johnofcamas
The problem is solved (at least for me). See my post in this topic.

7

Hey, just to add to this thread. I’m on OH2.2 and experienced the same issue. I upgraded to OH2.3 still no luck. I finally figured out that if you use the event trigger:

Channel 'astro:sun:local:rise#event' triggered START

You can only have a single rule that uses this event. If you have multiple (like I did), only one of them get executed. Which one is not clear and seems to change randomly.

Anyone, since I’ve been struggling with this for a few days, I thought I share this tip:

Only use the event trigger in a single rule!

8

Unfortunately this is not true. I’m using the same trigger channel in different rules and for another case the same trigger channel multiple times in a single rule and all are executed without any problems.
Make sure you have different rule names!

9

On OH2.2?

10

I don’t remember, 2.2. was ages ago :grin:
There have been issues with the astro binding a year ago, but those were solved. Since 2.3 and 2.4 snapshot (maybe also with 2.2. snapshot) it works without any problems.

11

Hmmm. I’ll have another look then! :slight_smile: