# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Simple (Sys) LOG - Use this app for Simple (Sys) Logging **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, tools, homey-pro, logging, syslog\ **Created:** [March 11, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533 "2023-03-11T20:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Niclas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niclas/32/13339_2.png) [@Niclas](https://community.homey.app/u/Niclas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/222 "2023-05-26T06:43:31Z")
Hi! I’ve been trying to use the card ‘Get the (whole) log as’ in an advanced flow. When running this flow I can’t figure out where the file is saved? I have Better Logic Library installed. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/0/10b0ea3d336844cea6d614e53c18c6117d7dc3c3.png) I have tried using the FTP Client but am not able to access my Homey. Perhaps that is the problem? I get the following error: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/b/2bd4aa8d029dbbedadfff500c79acd8632c58415.png) Do I need to install the FTP/Web server application or do I need to search elsewhere? Thanks in advance! Niclas ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/223 "2023-05-26T11:46:23Z")
> [@Niclas](#): > > Do I need to install the FTP/Web server application or do I need to search elsewhere? Well yeah, you can install a FTP server on Homey if you want, like the Micro Web Server or HTTP/FTP server app. Than connect the FTP Client app with that FTP server. Now you can write the Excel file (it’s given as a token) on the FTP server through a flowcard in the FTP Client app (which accepts Base64 files) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Niclas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niclas/32/13339_2.png) [@Niclas](https://community.homey.app/u/Niclas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/224 "2023-05-26T13:21:03Z")
Thanks Arie! I think I understand now, the card doesn’t really download a file, it simply fills the token. In the next step I can use a card from FTP Client to save the file using this token. Right? Niclas ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/225 "2023-05-26T13:32:00Z")
Well, the token contains the whole file, encoded as Base64 (binary file converted into a string/text). Once the Get Log is done, the file is actually already “downloaded”. You just need to save it in a way you yourself can download it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/226 "2023-05-26T13:34:44Z")
Remember to first add a FTP device which connects to your FTP server. ![Screenshot_20230526-153758_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/f/cfdfb1c742ecd7bf152647bdfbda6781ffb3484a.jpeg) Then this flowcard can be used, right after the “get the log” flowcard ![Screenshot_20230526-153223_Firefox](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/b/5b2eeabef33fb5d8a4c76d251c95ad9062476dda.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Niclas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niclas/32/13339_2.png) [@Niclas](https://community.homey.app/u/Niclas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/227 "2023-05-26T13:41:34Z")
Thanks! Managed to download the log as an Excel-file now to my Homey using a device created from the Ftp Client app. Opening the file, Excel claims there’s a problem with the /xl/sharedStrings.xml-file, so maybe there’s an incorrect or missing tag in that file (it can be edited renaming the Excel-file to zip). However Excel manages to repair the file, so I can live with that :-). ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/228 "2023-05-26T13:44:25Z")
Indeed, the node-module i use in BLL to create the xlsx file, still has some bugs in it. I hope it gets fixed soon, i am watching the updates on it. ---
**Author:** ![Bram\_C](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bram_c/32/108797_2.png) [@Bram\_C](https://community.homey.app/u/Bram_C)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/229 "2023-05-28T19:37:20Z")
@Arie_J_Godschalk: Since approximately one week, the Simple (Sys) Log app (v3.0.25) is crashing every day on my Homey Pro (Early 2019, v8.1.4). I now found out it crashes every time Homey makes a back-up. Do you have any suggestions what I can do to prevent the app from crashing? Thanks in advance for your help! ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/230 "2023-05-29T07:02:09Z")
> [@Bram\_C](#): > > Since approximately one week, the Simple (Sys) Log app (v3.0.25) is crashing every day on my Homey Pro (Early 2019, v8.1.4). I now found out it crashes every time Homey makes a back-up. Do you have any suggestions what I can do to prevent the app from crashing? Any change your Homey "hard"disk is full? I do have some crashreports with ENOSPC: no space left on device. ---
**Author:** ![Bram\_C](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bram_c/32/108797_2.png) [@Bram\_C](https://community.homey.app/u/Bram_C)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/231 "2023-05-29T07:25:51Z")
Thanks for your reply and I appreciate your help! In settings, it shows that both storage and memory are not full. Do you have any advice or suggestions? ![Screenshot_20230529_092152_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/8/68d540c8d915baea0412c6afb17ee4f19565ea2d.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20230529_092125_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/f/5f6c5e6550ac7f3c7a255a82e1b4e7da74584744.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:32am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/232 "2023-05-29T07:32:35Z")
> [@Bram\_C](#): > > Do you have any advice or suggestions? Well, you are using a lot of space for SimpleLog, perhaps automaticly delete old logs? And then see if it still crashes during a backup? Because i don’t really have control over what happends during a backup, but if you reduced the size of SimpeLog and it stops crashing, then there might be a limit on how large a app-size may be during backup?! ---
**Author:** ![Bram\_C](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bram_c/32/108797_2.png) [@Bram\_C](https://community.homey.app/u/Bram_C)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/233 "2023-05-29T08:02:11Z")
Great, I’ll give that a try! Thanks for your advice! ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/234 "2023-05-29T08:13:06Z")
There is a new setting for automaticly deleting old logs btw. ---
**Author:** ![Bram\_C](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bram_c/32/108797_2.png) [@Bram\_C](https://community.homey.app/u/Bram_C)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/235 "2023-05-29T08:28:52Z")
O nice, I found it. That’s easier than a flow. Just deleted the entire log and made a back-up. The app didn’t crash! I also found that I had accidentally enabled a test flow which created a log item every time a sensor value has been changed. This caused about 20-50 log items to be written in 5 minutes time which explaines why Simple (Sys) Log was using so much space. Of course, I now deleted this flow 😄 Thanks for your help, I gave you a donation. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/236 "2023-05-29T09:17:00Z")
> [@Bram\_C](#): > > Thanks for your help, I gave you a donation. Thanks m8! And yeah, be carefull: The old SImpleLog allowed for just 2000 loglines, however, the new version allowes many many more log-records! I have just tested writing 250.000 records into the log on my HP2023: It used “just 12.9MB”. So, since you were using more that 400MB, i think you literally had millions of records 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bram\_C](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bram_c/32/108797_2.png) [@Bram\_C](https://community.homey.app/u/Bram_C)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/237 "2023-05-29T10:04:36Z")
Oops…🤭 ---
**Author:** ![B3rt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/b3rt/32/9435_2.png) [@B3rt](https://community.homey.app/u/B3rt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/241 "2023-06-06T09:42:46Z")
I just reinstalled my Homey (from scratch) and I am re-creating flows. I the past i use simple log to log something, but it has changed (alot). When i now write a log and want to view it I get an error: ![Screenshot 2023-06-06 113335](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/1/5127c0e0da2b69858089cbc74c86fd60d56c9daa.png) ![Screenshot 2023-06-06 113343](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/c/ac88680e76d7cd43281d723babd4e4a0c04c8dec.png) The betterlogic app is installed… Where can I view the log files which i created a flow card: ![Screenshot 2023-06-06 114208](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/e/3edb20f5e0b10089bf03db1eb577765d2c1f228a.png) ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/242 "2023-06-06T11:54:23Z")
What happends if you restart the SimpleLog App? ---
**Author:** ![B3rt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/b3rt/32/9435_2.png) [@B3rt](https://community.homey.app/u/B3rt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/243 "2023-06-06T14:21:01Z")
that worked 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ranney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@Ranney](https://community.homey.app/u/Ranney)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533/244 "2023-06-12T21:18:48Z")
Wow, great @Arie_J_Godschalk ! Thanks for the option to hide the group name in the timeline ☺👍👍 [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533.md?page=11) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533.md?page=13)