Afternoon all,
I want to simplify this flow before I link the smoke alarms to the additional actions otherwise it is going to look messy.
Any way I can do that? Otherwise I have to link each of the 2 smoke alarm turning on flows to 10 follow on actions, so will have 20x spaghetti lines linking them.
Eg it will look like this
In case of an alarm you let some lights blink. Which is great for getting everybody’s attention but can make it difficult to orientate for the best way out of the house
Not in this instance as they don’t continuosly blink (seems to only last about 10 secs) and it’s only in the lights on the ceiling.
The routes out are all lit to 100% and stay lit.
Instead of listing the smoke sensors individually, you can also use the following Flow cards:
These Flow Cards can be found here:
This doesn’t reduce many lines, but at least a few.
I am using “scenes” for switching on groups of lights to a specific setting.
The scenes can be used by multiple flows.
That way the spaghetti is moved to a seperate simple flow.
You can read how I do that here
To make it even more clear and usable I create virtual devices for all scenes, so I can just add the virtual device to a flow to trigger the scene
You can read how to do that here
It wrote it before we had advanced flow, but it still helps for complex flows…
For safety reasons I would remove the 55 degree temperature card. If the smoke alarm is on, then you should get warned without any other condition. The more things that require an action the more potential problems might arise.
Also, send notifications to all user so you get warned even if you’re not at home.
For the other part, you could set a variable to TRUE and trigger the lights if the logic condition becomes TRUE. This way there are no lines going from the smoke alarm to the lights.
Why is that ? There are quite some situations where fire would generate heat but not jet smoke.
If something is creating so much heat that a smoke detector measures 55C I would certainly want to know!
The trigger is ANY (Smoke or Heat) so it will work either way…
Thank you for clarification. I stand corrected
