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

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@Kevin_Lieb

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Nothing, it simply doesn’t work that way.
Two solutions:
1:

[OH2] Using time of astro binding for rules

I don’t think it works like that. I’m not completely up on OH 2 but I don’t think they changed how this works. The Time is triggers are independent of the Astro binding. The only valid Time is rule triggers are Time is noon and Time is midnight. In OH 1 the Astro binging used to be configurable to generate an event which could trigger a rule when a certain time occurs. However, this is incompatible with OH 2 and this behavior is being reimplemented in the core of OH 2, but is not yet implement…

2:

Astro events on sunrise/sunset

Right, this is the best advice! For the rest, see https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/issues/310.

Open issue:
https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/issues/310