The sunset automation required TV mode off, so an afternoon of TV skipped the driveway string lights entirely (Sep 22 and 23) - not an outage. The driveway now has its own sunset -1h automation, with catch-up on restart or switch reconnect before 23:00. Evening brightness lives in one script (evening_lights_apply) that blends between the old step levels; a 5-minute ramp from 20:30 eases lights that are on and leaves alone any a person has changed by hand. The Dining Hall no longer bumps to 50% at 21:30. TV off after 23:30 now only turns off the living room glow instead of bringing the whole house back to full brightness, and TV on/off leave the lights alone in daylight. Lights-out moves to 23:30, and a 01:00 sweep catches anything switched back on at the wall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>