# \[APP\]\[Pro\] WhatsApp - Simple. Reliable. Private **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, tools, flow, homey-pro, advancedflow\ **Created:** [October 2, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749 "2023-10-02T10:03:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 68
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1374 "2025-04-18T16:54:03Z")
@_Bredero nice Best practice is to connect the cards immediate A lot of trigger cards have tags attached to them. You can see it in the card it self it shows a small icon ---
**Author:** ![\_Bredero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/_bredero/32/30978_2.png) [@\_Bredero](https://community.homey.app/u/_Bredero)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1375 "2025-04-18T17:34:37Z")
Hi, i use Homey for many years.. first time i see the small icon…🙈 haha thanks for the tip​:wink: ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/darkness/32/5104_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.homey.app/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1377 "2025-04-22T11:46:39Z")
I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get the “senders number” and “sender” cards to work. Here’s a picture of my flow: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/f/2fcdfe5cdea46f1e10211c58ee31153d4fc1c8b2.png) I printed out the sender name and number and keyed it in exactly as what I saw in the “senders number” and “sender” cards, but the flow would never get processed, i.e., it can’t match the sender number. Can someone advise what is wrong? ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1378 "2025-04-22T11:48:38Z")
@Darkness sorry but this is not really a clear image. Please provide what you’re trying to do. Input and expected output. ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/darkness/32/5104_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.homey.app/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1379 "2025-04-22T11:59:03Z")
What i wanted to do is to simply filter a message by the sender and number so that i can process it. I can confirm that the app receives the message, but somehow it is unable to match the sender or the phone number. ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1380 "2025-04-22T12:00:02Z")
@Darkness please try a simple flow without the extra check for a variable. now you’re combining all things together. Just try step for step and see if that works, then start expanding the flow ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/darkness/32/5104_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.homey.app/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1381 "2025-04-22T12:01:56Z")
![1000375319](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/f/5f91ba0dc595a1a920717f0029a9eac8dfeb164d.jpeg) This is a sample of the test flow that i used. It is unable to detect the phone number. If i delete the And card, it works. ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1382 "2025-04-22T12:10:11Z")
@Darkness and you did add the + icon to the senders number? ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/darkness/32/5104_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.homey.app/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1383 "2025-04-22T12:19:13Z")
Yes, with the country code. ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1384 "2025-04-22T12:33:17Z")
@Darkness i don’t recognise this and can’t reproduce. are there no spaces in the input field? please send a report after running the flow ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/darkness/32/5104_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.homey.app/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1385 "2025-04-22T16:20:26Z")
There must be some unexplained bug ongoing. I created an advance flow (instead of standard flow) using only the simple cards and it works. I then proceeded to replace all of the previous cards that didn’t work into this debugging flow and replace them with exactly the same cards except that i created them again from scratch and then it works. After that, i copied the entire flow again from the debug flow to the main flow and it stopped working again. I created the diagnostic report 48f726c8-a1a7-4a2c-84d7-ab91e03ed7e1 ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1386 "2025-04-22T16:46:12Z")
@Darkness ok so it works with only WhatsApp cards. Are you sure that the variable check works? Report looks good ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/darkness/32/5104_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.homey.app/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1387 "2025-04-23T15:43:24Z")
I deleted all the cards from scratch and created them again and it works. So what i did now is to split the flow into 2 separate flows and it now works. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBoer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chrisboer/32/1252_2.png) [@ChrisBoer](https://community.homey.app/u/ChrisBoer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1388 "2025-05-08T13:04:36Z")
GroupID not found when sending to [WhatsApp Group Invite](https://chat.whatsapp.com/8zaZgcVHnMsGetc) id is opening the correct group when clicking on it. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/3/f34a434114975241576ed7c055cff1c45e6c2531.png) ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1389 "2025-05-08T13:50:43Z")
@ChrisBoer is homey in the group and also admin ? ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBoer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chrisboer/32/1252_2.png) [@ChrisBoer](https://community.homey.app/u/ChrisBoer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1390 "2025-05-08T14:38:10Z")
the whatsapp number added to homey whatsapp is admin in the group ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1391 "2025-05-08T20:05:52Z")
@ChrisBoer please send a diagnostic report after trying to send a message ---
**Author:** ![MozartSailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@MozartSailor](https://community.homey.app/u/MozartSailor)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1392 "2025-05-14T18:59:45Z")
I got a similar issue as @ChrisBoer, I am unable to send to certain WhatsApp Groups. Diagnostic Report: c0979804-7da6-455e-ac6f-1ed48eb4f067. Thank you @martijnpoppen for the great app! ---
**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1393 "2025-05-14T19:02:09Z")
@MozartSailor can you try to restart the app and try again? ---
**Author:** ![MozartSailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@MozartSailor](https://community.homey.app/u/MozartSailor)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749/1394 "2025-05-14T19:44:44Z")
Have done so. Still the same. Diagnostic Report: afe03b1d-a53d-4d48-9906-a61bdd4fca2c [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749.md?page=67) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-simple-reliable-private/90749.md?page=69)