# Advanced Flow Doesn't Run, Doesn't Produce Error Messaging
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** advancedflow
**Created:** [March 19, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708 "2026-03-19T22:43:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/1 "2026-03-19T22:43:26Z")
Hello: I have an advanced flow that starts “90 minutes before sunset”, and then goes through several steps that ultimately result in two Govee lightbulbs increasing in brightness by 1% to 100% over 75 minutes.
Recently, this flow stopped working. I added some logging and ‘error catching’ steps, but the logging shows that the ‘start’ action works properly, and none of the ‘error catching’ steps catch any errors.
However, if I manually slick the ‘start’ action, or any action after the ‘start’ action, the flow works just fine.
I was hoping someone could assist/advise me. Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 5:09am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/2 "2026-03-20T05:09:19Z")
I see in your screenshot that you turn on the lights first before dimming them. In most cases, using only the dim cards also turns the lights on. If it doesn’t, you should add a short delay between the “Turn on” and Dim cards.
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### Author:  [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 9:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/3 "2026-03-20T09:14:01Z")
> [@zagman76](#):
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> Recently, this flow stopped working
What do you mean by this? From your logging it seems the flow does start?
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### Author:  [@Wim\_Post](https://community.homey.app/u/Wim_Post)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 9:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/4 "2026-03-20T09:33:42Z")
(Do you have a smart switch which makes smartbulbs powerless when turned off?)
I would change the transition: from 0 to 1 in 100 steps during 75 minutes.
When transition reaches a step: dim bulbs to transitionvalue.
Then you don’t need the ‘turn on’- and ‘dim to 1%’-cards.
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### Author:  [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 10:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/5 "2026-03-20T10:14:52Z")
If I understand you correctly, the flow is no longer triggered by the flow card “The sun sets in 90 minutes,” right?
Add a push notification or timeline notification card. This will help you determine whether the Sun card is causing the problem:
Of course, you can do the same for the webhook flow card.
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/6 "2026-03-20T11:53:38Z")
> [@smarthomesven](#):
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> I see in your screenshot that you turn on the lights first before dimming them. In most cases, using only the dim cards also turns the lights on. If it doesn’t, you should add a short delay between the “Turn on” and Dim cards.
I’ll add a 3-second delay, and see if that helps, but when I simply press button to start the flow manually (or use a ‘test from here’ action), the whole flow runs without any issues.
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### Author:  [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/7 "2026-03-20T11:55:38Z")
> [@zagman76](#):
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> I simply press button to star the flow manually (or use a ‘test from here’ action), the whole flow runs without any issues.
Yes, because the Flow is slowed down on purpose when testing.
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/8 "2026-03-20T11:55:42Z")
> [@Rmb](#):
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> What do you mean by this? From your logging it seems the flow does start?
It _does_ start, but the flow doesn’t process.
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/9 "2026-03-20T12:00:43Z")
> [@DirkG](#):
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> If I understand you correctly, the flow is no longer triggered by the flow card “The sun sets in 90 minutes,” right?
No - the flow _is_ triggered (I am already logging that part, in the Google Sheets screenshot in my original post). I had switched it to the built-in card from an external-webhook trigger (above the 90-min card in the pic above), thinking it was the external trigger that wasn’t working, however the Google Sheet logging also captures that it **is** working.
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### Author:  [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/10 "2026-03-20T12:25:47Z")
> [@zagman76](#):
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> It _does_ start, but the flow doesn’t process.
Well, but what does not work as expected? Which part, which card?
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/11 "2026-03-20T12:30:22Z")
> [@Rmb](#):
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> Well, but what does not work as expected? Which part, which card?
When I look in the Govee app, it only shows the bulbs at 1%, so they don’t increase in brightness over time, even though if I run the flow manually, they _do_ increase over time.
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### Author:  [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/12 "2026-03-20T13:10:22Z")
> [@zagman76](#):
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> No - the flow _is_ triggered
Okay, then I misunderstood you.
> [@zagman76](#):
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> When I look in the Govee app, it only shows the bulbs at 1%, so they don’t increase in brightness over time
Because your flow is set up wrong
Instead of “Set relative dim level to 1%,” you need to enter the tag from the transition flow card:
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### Author:  [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/13 "2026-03-20T15:29:30Z")
This card, does that actually work in all cases and let the flow continue?
In order for this card to work and not error out by itself, all four Error parameters need to be present. Not sure where these Error messages originate from. I assume the source of these are four different flow cards. All those flowcards need to result in an error in order for the ‘Create…as Text-tag’ card to work. If not, then one or more parameters are not available and (as far as I know), this card will error out and the flow will not continue.
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/14 "2026-03-20T15:44:18Z")
It hasn’t triggered so far, but my thought was that the ‘create \_\_\_ as text-tag’ would just concatenate any messages from the individual cards before and use the `|` character as a separator not as an actual boolean (although, I suppose if it were operating as an **OR** it would work as well).
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/15 "2026-03-20T15:51:57Z")
> [@DirkG](#):
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> Because your flow is set up wrong
It was working as it is currently set up (until recently, when the flow stopped working).
Also, it works as-is when I manually trigger the flow.
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### Author:  [@Wim\_Post](https://community.homey.app/u/Wim_Post)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/16 "2026-03-20T16:29:58Z")
> [@zagman76](#):
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> Also, it works as-is when I manually trigger the flow.
When the garage light is turned off by the switch, you allow 10s for the bulbs to reconnect. During the test there is more time to reconnect because of the slower animation.
I strongly recommend another way to turn off the light and keep the lights allways connected.
(You needed 4 screenprints to show the flow. Consider zooming out so you can see the whole canvas)
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### Author:  [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/17 "2026-03-20T16:48:01Z")
You can check it by testing the flow starting from that specifiic card. I think it will error out.
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/18 "2026-03-20T17:27:49Z")
> [@SunBeech](#):
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> You can check it by testing the flow starting from that specifiic card. I think it will error out.
You’re correct! If I didn’t fill out a value for all 4 ‘errors’, it wouldn’t run.
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### Author:  [@zagman76](https://community.homey.app/u/zagman76)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/19 "2026-03-20T23:03:27Z")
So, even with all the changes people suggested here and that I made, the flow still didn’t run as expected.
However, when I added an _explicit_ card to run at `18:52`, the flow operated as expected, so… 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/advanced-flow-doesnt-run-doesnt-produce-error-messaging/152708/20 "2026-03-21T01:38:32Z")
> [@zagman76](#):
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> when I simply press button to start the flow manually (or use a ‘test from here’ action), the whole flow runs without any issues.
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This is because in that case _ **you** _ act as “sun sets in 90 minutes” trigger card.
Which implicates the sun trigger card doesn’t work (well) anymore.
The trigger, like it is now, doesn’t work, probably the offset is out of range due to firmware changes;
It’s very well possible it’s limited to 60 minutes max.
If that’s not the case:
I always had the idea the onboard sun cards are just not 100% reliable.
I can therefore recommend to switch to the [Sun Events app](https://community.homey.app/t/71043) by 100%
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