Hello Community, i would like to create a simple rule, when motion is detected turn the lamp on, but only when it is after sunset ore a time like after 19:00. at first i have created a rule like: rule " Light on when motion is detected" when Item Motion_GF_Corridor_Stiege received update ON then …

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You can look at the post above or you can use a flag item Please feel free to name it as you want Items file: Switch flagItem Rules file: rule "Set 1900 or Sunset flag" Time cron "0 0 19 * * ?" or Channel ‘astro:sun:home:set#start’ triggered START then flagItem.sendCommand(ON) //set…

Thank you very much, it is working with the flagItem :slight_smile: And the Idea with the Switch is also great, so i can tur it off and on manually if i want :grinning:

I’m new to OpenHab and in the process of migrating from SmartThings. I’m looking to do a similar thing and wondered how the rule given might be extended to turn off the light after a set time interval, of say, 5mins?

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[SOLVED] Help to create a rule "turn on a lamp when motion is detected but only after sunset until sunrise"

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules

opus (Jürgen Baginski) April 20, 2018, 11:20am 2

As a start I’d look into

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