Advanced Flows is an amazing power tool for Homey Pro users. One feature I would like to request is temporary variables that only exist for the duration that the flow runs (and don’t interfere with logic variables).
This would allow pro users to save the state of something while a flow runs and use or restore it later. Eg. I might want to have a flow that temporarily changes the music volume level but wants to restore it to the previous volume level towards the end of the flow.
I could think of workarounds to get such a thing in place but I suspect temporary variables would be a more structured feature that would elevate the flows of many users.
Its always a bit hit and miss with these things… But you learn along the way. Thanks for the FAQ article. There are also already new existing apps being build to extend Advanced flows in other ways, such as Advanced Triggers App for Homey | Homey. A new one is API Builder App for Homey | Homey which is also a very nice idea, unfortunately it comes with a subscription that might outweigh the value for some.
I created a app that just do that. It should come out tomorrow.
Currently it support to calculate floats (e.g. 10.457), calculate numbers (e.g. 10, automatically rounds up or down), simple number, simple string, simple boolean
