Hi people. I’ve had my Honey Pro for about 2 months now but not done anything with it as I just can’t find the basic starter flow info I need.
I’ve found the Page with some basic stuff but doesn’t really cover what I need: like setting up Alexa to action commands, like turning lights on and off. Telling Alexa to set Philips Hue Scene. Playing a welcome message on SONOS when someone comes home. Etc etc
ANY help would be truly appreciated as I am so excited to get this going but frustrated that I’m not finding the basics to start and learn.
Have you had a look at the following, I am bias but I wouldrecommend this tutorial.. It may seem over whelming, but all flows are created pretty much exactly the same. And once you get the hang of it by doing a couple - its dead easy.
If there are any specific questions you have - let us know.
Looking for help with a flow too. Love the guides but still a little lost
Im brand new to Homey this week.
Ive got a kitchen larder unit with 2 doors. 2 aqara open close sensors and a zigbee socket.
Ive got an LED strip in the unti and ive made a flow so that when either door opens, the socket turns on and so the LED strip lights up.
What i want to add to that flow is that when the doors close the sockets turns off. I got added into the flow “and then when door closes, light goes off”.
however, if only one of the door was open the light would come on and then immediately off.
I figured its because the ruler is seeing that even though one door is open, the other is closed so immediately runs the closed. So i know i needed to add an “iff all doors closed” turn off the light. However for the life of me i cant get this to work and cant figure out how the when/all functions.
So basically
Door (either or both) open. Light on.
When both doors close. Light off.
The second part of your flow, after the initial ‘turn on’ action, will never result in a ‘turn off’ action.
You’ll need to split up the flow. The second flow is triggered when the contact alarm turns off (one trigger for each sensor). You can then check if the other contact sensor is also turned off. If so, switch off the light.
For many cards: After creating a flow card you can right click it and invert the action.
Check your flow…
The bottom flow only has the “Larder rigth” in the IF cards (twice)
And you only added just one AND card checking the contact, so you only check one of the two doors
Hi all.
Sorry for another noob question.
Ive got alot of flows working really well now. I have one based on motion that triggers a light based on activity and time of day and then a second flow to turn that light off when the zone is inactive for 30 seconds. It mostly works
3 motion sensors, all in the same zone. One is on ground floor, one first floor and one in my attic room.
If i trigger any of the sensors individually, the light comes on and then turns off as expected after the delay.
However ive found if i trigger the upstairs sensors and then walk down and then in doing so trigger the bottom sensor, the light goes off and then wont turn on again for another 30 seconds or so.
I cant figure out why.
Of course you can add the “after sunset” conditional card in the top flow, right next to “the zone became active” trigger.
Better use “it is night” (“it is day” card, but inversed).
Because right after midnight (new day), the “it’s after sunset” isn’t true anymore
Please don’t assume motion sensors deactivate the zone the moment it isn’t detecting anything anymore.
Certain motion sensors have a 60s active state (preserves battery), but sometimes it’s possible to decrease that time to 30s or even shorter.
Depends on the sensor and the app.
Hi.
Homey is brilliant. Very powerful for home automation and so many things that work with it.
Some little annoyances with it - basic icons / lack of icons for devices, rooms cant be customised and moved into a custom order.
I have found the community and support team brilliant with things.
I do find it can be slow to trigger things compared to SmartThings, some flows just hang and it can sometimes take a while for devices to share over to amazon - but its not a game changer.
My only concern is longevity. Its not got much memory and im 3/4 full now. I have basic flows unlike
Some ive seen online. They should improve the memory in a future hub or allow us to swap it out.
That said its still Worth the plunge. The bridge has helped with some things too so consider getting one too
