Second half of piston never running

[Solutionssquad]

1) Give a description of the problem
As you can see in the attached screenshot, I have a piston with 2 parts.

2) What is the expected behavior?
Turn lights on @ sunset, and then back on at 9:30am.

3) What is happening/not happening?
While it turns them on, it does not turn off.

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston!

5) Attach any logs (From ST IDE and by turning logging level to Full)
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[jkp]

Instead of using the if block, you should try using the timer block.

ignore the set variable I am using in my example.

you can use the if blocks, just change Date & Times happens daily at 10/27/2017, 9:32:00 am to time happens daily at 9:32:00 am

[daven]

Just try the “is between”

[jkp]

Probably better if you use the presets for sunset and sunrise instead of {$sunset} and {$sunrise}

[daven]

Interesting, never noticed the Preset option. It has always worked but I just changed it for correctness. Thanks

[Solutionssquad]

Thanks much!
Just switched to timers.
Let’s see if it helps.

[Gopack2]

Yup! Because, $sunset and $sunrise return for the specific day that you run your piston on.

For example if you run today,
Let’s say sunset is at 8:30 PM 6/21/18 and sunrise is at 5:30 A.M. 6/21/18.

Then your conditions would be checking for time between 8:30 PM and 5:30 A.M., during the same day.

Where as using the presets uses the sunset and the next sunrise. Ie. 8:30 pm 6/21/18 and 5:30 6/22/18

Hope that helps as to why.