Offset on Sunrise and Sunset event

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
1

Hello,
i’m migrating from OH1.8 to OH2.4.
I’m working hardly :smiley:
I have 2 rules, sunrise and sunset event.
On OH1.8 i created 2 items:
Switch Sunrise_Event { astro=“planet=sun, type=rise, property=start, offset=-40” }
Switch Sunset_Event { astro=“planet=sun, type=set, property=end, offset=20” }
And then 2 ruels.

With OH 2.4, i just copied the 2 rules and modified:
when
Item Sunset_Event received update ON
then

to

when
Channel ‘astro:sun:home:set#event’ triggered START
then

But i didn’t understand how to use the offset.


Can u help me?
Thanks in advance!

2

May be this posting helps: Rollershutter down at 1 hours after END of sunset

3

Depends on how you’ve setup the OH2 astro thing. The pointer in the previous reply only applies if you use .things files, but the recommended method is to create/discover a thing in PaperUI.
If you did that, you can edit the channel’s options, there you can add the offset (and more like ‘earliest’ and ‘latest’ options).

4

Hello,
thanks to all!
In astro things file, i create a new thing:
astro:sun:local [ geolocation=“42.262,12.687”, interval=600 ]
{
Channels:
Type rangeEvent : rise#event [
offset=-40
]
Type rangeEvent : set#event [
offset=20
]
}

And i use it only for this event.
SunRise event works correctly!
Thanks

5

I don’t have an Astro things file. I configured astro with PaperUI. Can you tell me how to set this up?

6

Configuration > Things
Click your main Astro Thing
See the channels
Click the pencil/edit symbol on a channel
See the form for earliest/latest/offset options.

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7

Thanks Rossko that makes it very clear.