Simply turn on at sunrise, turn off at sunset in openhab2

[mhilbush (Mark)]

@ThomDietrich

Would you take the time to summarize what was said here and the additional elements

Here you go.

Time of Day Events

Edit: Note that the OH2 Astro binding now contains event functionality that eliminates the need for this workaround! What’s below can be accomplished much more simply using the native Astro binding functionality. There was some discussion here about sunrise & sunset events in OH2. https://community.openhab.org/t/simply-turn-on-at-sunrise-turn-off-at-sunset-in-openhab2 I’m sharing what I do in case anyone wants to use, critique, or extend. ntp.items DateTime CurrentTime "Date [%1$tA, %1$tm/…