Smart Porch Light Difficulty : Beginner With Homey you can easily automate you’re home lights, you can see an example of this here . In the following examples we are going to take a light and step by step update our flow to turn it into an automated light. While these examples are simple, the same c…

{when} + {then} We are going to start this flow using the simplest flow, {when} and action happens {then} do another action. In this example when its night time then turn porch light on. Ingredients [Fibaro Switch] (But you can use any smart light globe or switch.) [Date & Time] card, which give …

{then} again Previously we created a flow, which would turn on the porch light at sunset, but we can do as many actions as we like. In this example we will be adding a second {then} which will also brighten the Homey LED when the sun sets. Ingredients [Fibaro Switch] (But you can use any smart …

{and} Just as we can add additional {then} actions to a flow we can also easily add additional conditions which must be met before the actions will trigger. These are called {and} because {when} a trigger happens {and} another criteria is met {then} the action happens. It might be worth noting tha…

{or} WIth Homey, we actually have access to another second conditional in addition to {and}, which is {or}. Just like the {and} the {or} does exactly what it does in the English language. If a condition is met OR another condition is met. Because we quite often have guests on weekend nights in Spr…

{else} Our flow is starting to become more useful, but what if we are already at home and its not Friday in Spring? This is where the {else} comes in handy for triggering a new action. The {else} will run, whenever all the {and} condition and all of the {or} conditions are not met, or are not true…

{then} -> [delay] Now that our lights are turning on when we want and out LED ring is behaving correctly, we want to make sure the porch light doesn’t accidentally stay on all night. Which is much easier then it sounds. Delays allow action to be triggered at the when the flow runs, but for it to …

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Thanks for this awesome guide! But i can’t find the rest of the guides, are they written?

Give https://homeycornelisse.nl a try! It is in Dutch though. @ FB there are a few interesting groups about Homey and stuff.

Hi, Many thanks for this step by step, very usefull in my case I am wondering if turning off, like for example its midnight, or when the luminosity goes higher, is possible in the same flow, or if turning OFF always requires a new flow ? Even for simple flows?

[Beginner] Smart Porch Light Tutorial

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Claude_Carnot January 14, 2023, 1:48pm 16

Hi
I only see a few Then. in my homey … is that because of my homey bridge account ?

Do I need a homey pro to see all actions?

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[Beginner] Smart Porch Light Tutorial

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