[Solved] Problem: Update $var after restart

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Hi there!

I’ve got two time based rules:

• If it is after dawn then $timevar = “day”
• If it is after sunset then $timevar = “night”

After a restart $timevar = “day”.

I know that both rules are working. My problem, however, is that everytime I restart the Raspberry Pi after sunset the second rule isn’t working/executed/updated until I’ve opened and saved it in the rules section in pimatic. What am I doing wrong? How can I force pimatic to update all rules after a restart?

Thank!

you could try this:

if every 1 minute and it is after dawn....
if every 1 minute and it is after sunset......

then the rule would be executed every 1 minute.

@elburrito A possible error may be your assumption that rules are executed in a certain order (say top - down as displayed in the GUI). What if the second rule is executed before the first rule? In this case $timevar is set to day as after dawn is true until 0.00h next day (see also http://www.pimatic.org/docs/pimatic-sunrise/sunrise/). Try the following:

If it is after dawn and it is before sunset then $timevar = "day"
If it is after sunset then $timevar = "night"

Hello!

Thank you for the fast replies! I’ll try both options and then I’ll give you a feedback!

@elburrito I have just discovered a typo in the first rule shown in my previous post. I have updated the post.

@mwittig is right. rules are not necessarily processed like I shown at the gui. If you created rule 2 before rule 1 and moved these in the gui, it will be processed first.
have a look here, this has been discussed before at git Pimatic/pimatic#530

@mwittig / @leader21 You were right! Rules aren’t executed in the order as they are in the GUI. My two rules were imprecise. After adding “…and it is before sunset then…” both rules work as they should!

Thank you!