Sunrise & Sunset

Open the Alexa app and tap on the Menu button (three horizontal lines).
Tap on “Routines”.
Tap on the “plus” icon in the upper right corner to create a new routine.
Tap on the “plus” icon next to “When this happens”.
Tap on “Schedule”.
Tap on “Sunset”.
In the Sunset menu, using the “Time Offset” slider, you can choose how many minutes before or after sunset you’d like your new routine to start.
Once you’ve selected the desired options, tap on “Next” in the upper right corner.
You should be in the “New Routine” menu, where you’d tap on “Add action” and select “Smart Home” from the menu.
For this example, let’s suppose you have a couple of Smart Plugs arranged into a group called “Porch” for convenient control at the same time. Now you can tap on the “Control group” option. control group
In the next menu, you will see all the groups you have created, among which is the group “Porch”. Tap on it.
Toggle the selector to “On”, which means turning the lights on at sunset.
Tap on “Next” in the upper right corner of the screen.
You will be back to the “New Routine” menu, where you can see all the settings you’ve added to this routine.

If you tap on the “Save” button in the upper right corner, you’ll have this routine set up to turn the lights on. But, you certainly wouldn’t want the lights turned on indefinitely, right? To prevent that, don’t tap on “Save” just yet but rather proceed to the next section.

From the “New Routine” menu, tap on the “plus” sign next to the “Add action” option.
Select “Wait” from the menu.
Now, choose the time lapsed before you’d like the lights to go off and tap on “Next” in the upper right corner.
This will take you back to the “New Routine” screen. Add another action for turning the off. Tap on the “plus” sign.
Tap on “Smart Home”.
Select “Control group”.
Tap on “Porch”.
Toggle the power switch to “Off” and tap on “Next” in the upper right corner.
This will get you back to the New Routine screen, where you’ll see all the actions added so far.
Keep in mind that these actions are performed from top to bottom, so you’ll have to rearrange them if they’re not in the proper order. You can do that by simply dragging them up or down – simply tap and hold the “twin bars” icon to the right of each action to drag up or down. The right order in this case would be 1) turn the lights on, 2) wait two and a half hours, and 3) turn the lights off.
If you’re satisfied with everything so far, tap on “Save” in the upper right corner.
A “Routine created successfully” notification will appear in the upper part of the screen.
Tap the “back” icon in the upper left corner to return to the “Routines” menu.
In the “Routines” menu, you should be looking at your freshly created sunset routine.
To start it, just tap on the “play” icon on the right side of your routine.
Upon a successful start, you’ll see the notification in the upper part of the screen.

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