Before/After Sunset not triggering properly

[coarse elm]

My automation seems to always think it’s before sunset, leading to only that conditional set of actions taking place. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I have tried using sunrise/sunset and before/after and nothing seems to work.

  - entity_id: media_player.lg_tv
    from: "on"
    to: "off"
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - target:
      entity_id:
        - switch.sync_box_power
        - switch.sync_box_light_sync
    action: switch.turn_off
    data: {}
  - target:
      device_id:
        - 38abe3297a47f01c949d605f2afdfe7b
        - f26e20fa60702c1f7d55479a05a3827d
        - 05e23baad3f1a9b92dabf56312689ef2
    data:
      transition: 2
    action: light.turn_off
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: sun
            after: sunrise
        sequence:
          - target:
              device_id: 5169327fed5204139591037e2f1d001a
            data:
              transition: 2
            action: light.turn_off
          - delay: "00:00:10"
          - condition: state
            entity_id: media_player.lg_tv
            state: "off"
          - condition: state
            entity_id: cover.windowcovering_cover
            state: closed
            for:
              seconds: 5
          - target:
              device_id: b0f24750f4f6f6623ab65580c03a38dc
            action: cover.open_cover
            data: {}
      - conditions:
          - condition: sun
            before: sunrise
        sequence:
          - target:
              device_id: 5169327fed5204139591037e2f1d001a
            data:
              transition: 2
              rgb_color:
                - 254
                - 228
                - 168
              brightness_pct: 50
            action: light.turn_on
          - delay: "00:05:00"
          - target:
              device_id: 5169327fed5204139591037e2f1d001a
            data:
              transition: 2
            action: light.turn_off
mode: single```

[cunning stirrup]

its always before sunrise and its always after sunrise (technically)
you are better off using the solar elevation entity.
if elevation <=0 then sun is down
if elevation is >=1 then sun is up
you can adjust the elevation values to get the right level of light/dark that works for you as 0 whilst technically correct is not perfect for most applications

[fossil prairie]

These conditions should work fine, however, besides elevation you could also use a state condition on the sun.sun entity

condition: state
entity_id: sun.sun
state: above_horizon

[coarse elm]

I’ll give these both a shot. Thank you both!

[coarse elm]

Is there a way to offset the above/below portion directly? Or would that then just be messing around with the elevation numbers?

[cunning stirrup]

elevation numbers is what i would suggest, what I did for these kind of things was a voice alert
"your attention please - please examine the light level and make a decision if this setting needs to be adjusted"
few days of that was enough to get it more or less correct and turn off the alert, then can finetune it later if you want

this one was a hit:
"your attention please, the room appears to be getting dark so i am going to turn the light on, if this needs to be earlier or later please report this to the administrator and it will be adjusted"