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Sun
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<p>The sun component will use your current location to track if the sun is above or below the horizon.The sun can be used within automation as <a href="/getting-started/automation-trigger/#sun-trigger">a trigger with an optional offset to simulate dawn/dusk</a>.</p>
<div class="language-yaml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="c1"># Example configuration.yaml entry</span>
<span class="s">sun</span><span class="pi">:</span>
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<p>Configuration variables:</p>
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<li><strong>elevation</strong> (<em>Optional</em>): The (physical) elevation of your location, in metres above sea level. If omitted will be retrieved from Google Maps.</li>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="implementation-details" href="#implementation-details"></a> Implementation Details</h3>
<p>The suns event listener will call the service when the sun rises or sets with an offset.</p>
<p>The sun event need to have the type sun, which service to call, which event (sunset or sunrise) and the offset.</p>
<div class="language-json highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="p">{</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nt">"type"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"sun"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nt">"service"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"switch.turn_on"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nt">"event"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"sunset"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nt">"offset"</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"-01:00:00"</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w">
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<h4><a class="title-link" name="maintains-entity-sunsun" href="#maintains-entity-sunsun"></a> Maintains entity <code class="highlighter-rouge">sun.sun</code></h4>
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<th>Possible state</th>
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<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">above_horizon</code></td>
<td>When the sun is above the horizon.</td>
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<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">below_horizon</code></td>
<td>When the sun is below the horizon.</td>
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<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">next_rising</code></td>
<td>Date and time of the next sun rising (in UTC).</td>
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<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">next_setting</code></td>
<td>Date and time of the next sun setting (in UTC).</td>
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<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">elevation</code></td>
<td>Solar elevation. This is the angle between the sun and the horizon. Negative values mean the sun is below the horizon.</td>
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<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">azimuth</code></td>
<td>Solar azimuth. The angle is shown clockwise from north.</td>
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