How to turn off lights that automatically come on at sunrise

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    Hi,
    We have lights in the whole house that are coming on at sunrise, any idea on how to disable it? I have been on schedules and it doesn’t give me the option to disable, only to change times, which currently says that daylight savings is enabled at 01:00 and disables at 02:00- which doesn’t make sense as the lights turn on at sunrise. Any help is appreciated, thank you
     
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    Can you send a list of products that you have such as touchscreens (no need at this stage to tell us about switches or units in your switchboard)
     
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    I’m not sure what it’s called, but I have attached a photo of the touchscreen unit we have.
     

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    This is a standard schedule that just adjusts the time when daylight saving starts and ends. It has nothing to do with your lights coming on.

    You haven't actually said whether the lights have alway come on at sunrise (i.e. were programmed to do that), or whether this is a fault that has developed recently.

    Try to remeber that the only information we have to go on is what you tell us. We're just engineers and electricians here. No mind readers unfortunately. :)

    By the way. That is a 5000CTL2 black and white touch screen. Doesn't look like it's been programmed to do much though.
     
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    Hello,
    Thanks for your reply. As you can probably tell I’m not an electrician or an engineer, just a desperate 27year old woman whose baby is being woken up early every morning.
    We have been in this house approaching a year now, it started just before Christmas Day. It has never done it before, but again, we haven’t been in here a full year yet, so I’m unsure if the people before us had programmed it to come on at this time of year? If that’s possible? Or whether it is a recent fault. Also just to note, that they go off by themselves after 20 minutes of being on. I’m sorry I didn’t provide enough information before, this is all new to me, so unsure what information you need in order to help. Thank you for your help with identifying which touch screen we have.
     
    MorganFinney, Feb 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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