# Blind flow help needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Flows\ **Tags:** z-wave\ **Created:** [March 2, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636 "2020-03-02T08:02:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/1 "2020-03-02T08:02:25Z")
Hi all. I have created a flow to close my bedroom blind. When temp, lux, and afternoons sync. What iam finding is that at random times of the afternoon the flow repeats the audio message. Anyone able to help with why? Or any betterway to handle the flow? Thanks. ![Screenshot_2020-03-02-15-50-09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/6/86c5b43c8bb007ab6255c5cd073c6239889e0dac.jpeg) ![Screenshot_2020-03-02-15-50-04](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/9/3938bd72f8d17cabcd3acee97019cfc9d6445653.jpeg) ![Screenshot_2020-03-02-15-49-48](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/9/6/96fc87f87af2d9e607eb7204c8c00e565260d8ac.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Cactus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/le_cactus/32/9727_2.png) [@Le\_Cactus](https://community.homey.app/u/Le_Cactus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/2 "2020-03-02T08:31:12Z")
The flow will be triggered every time the temperature changes. You must include a “and Dim \> 10%” in the flow so the flow wil only be execute when the blinds aren’t closed yet. ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/3 "2020-03-02T14:14:12Z")
Ok … thanks. Like this? ![Screenshot_20200302-221555_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/c/4ccff616c144f67c5184ee1acca9e7191306929d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Cactus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/le_cactus/32/9727_2.png) [@Le\_Cactus](https://community.homey.app/u/Le_Cactus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/4 "2020-03-02T17:20:39Z")
Yup ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/5 "2020-03-03T09:11:18Z")
Ok…so the blind flow failed today 😯 ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/6 "2020-03-03T09:52:31Z")
What happens when you press the test button? Which condition/card stops the flow? Red cross? ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/7 "2020-03-03T14:41:21Z")
No crosses 😟, but today i had to put it down manually. ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/8 "2020-03-03T14:48:24Z")
What percentage is fully open and what percentage is fully closed? I’m just wondering if the logic needs to be less than 10% but then 10% closed doesn’t seems very far down. Also is the Dim Level tag definitely for the blind? ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/9 "2020-03-03T19:03:43Z")
I had also already thought about whether the dim level is the other way around. But it is the same with my blinds: 100% = open 0 % = closed If it should be different in his case, he should have had a red cross at the dim level in the test. ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/10 "2020-03-04T06:08:39Z")
So it failed again today. I checked the multi-6 and lux os 5800. Temp is 33 and it’s after 1pm. So all parameters are triggered. 0% is fully closed. 10% is almost closed bar for a little light to get through. Thanks for the ongoing assistance 😊👍 ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/11 "2020-03-04T09:36:13Z")
If the logic values lux and temperature in the section “And…” come from the right devices, everything should be fine. I see no error. Maybe you rebuild the flow completely new… 🤷🏼‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/12 "2020-03-04T12:27:06Z")
> [@Razzle](#): > > checked the multi-6 and lux os 5800. Temp is 33 and it’s after 1pm. So all parameters are triggered. Did it get to 33 before 1pm or when the lux was lower? The trigger only fires when the temperature changes so if it gets to 33 and stays there before the other conditions are true then the flow won’t run. P.S. I wish it was 33 here 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/13 "2020-03-05T05:54:31Z")
Ok… so I recreated the whole flow and it failed again today ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/14 "2020-03-05T05:57:38Z")
Ok but this has been working before, other than the echoing of the voice. Only adding in the blind greater has broken it. Is there a better way of writing this flow?? ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/15 "2020-03-05T07:16:01Z")
Instead of the trigger temperature I would prefer a variable. However, the variable would have to be set in a separate flow. The easiest but maybe not the best solution is the following: **When…** Temp. \> 26 **Then…** set Variable „Temp\_Bedroom“ to Yes **Else** set Variable „Temp\_Bedroom“ to No Replace the temperature sensor at If… with “When a variable has changed” in the main flow. At **And…** you have to replace the logic card temperature with the logic card “Temp\_Bedroom” is “Yes”. The variable “Blind is greater than” I would delete. The advantage of a variable is that it does not change constantly and thus triggers the flow. If you use the temperature as trigger, the flow will be triggered every time the temperature changes above 26 °C. ---
**Author:** ![rzarajczyk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rzarajczyk/32/8447_2.png) [@rzarajczyk](https://community.homey.app/u/rzarajczyk)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/17 "2020-03-09T07:33:55Z")
Perhaps dim level is in decimals, like in bulbs? Try “WHEN dim level is greater that 0.1” instead od 10. ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/18 "2020-03-09T07:47:19Z")
Ok. So i made the flow with variable. If i run the flow manually it works but it wont run itself. 😔😔 ![Screenshot_20200309-154045_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/7/5781ae6e0e884e4da0bda09fdc2917c5d048148b.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20200309-154049_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/7/d7ad86b7920534067dd7134bb4b0f28728f0ef56.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20200309-154056_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/0/508422855b7016588b3f7059dbfccc901c65dd5a.jpeg) Variable set ![Screenshot_20200309-154330_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/c/1ce6f50885d8306da919b057336d1d2027d83faf.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20200309-154337_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/f/af05a4f40591de68a310c54955e0f80dccbe1a4c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/19 "2020-03-09T08:00:05Z")
Your second flow only sets the logic value to “yes”, and it stays “yes” as there is no flow/logic that puts it back to “no”, so there is nothing that changes?, where your first flow responds to. ---
**Author:** ![Razzle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/razzle/32/10410_2.png) [@Razzle](https://community.homey.app/u/Razzle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/20 "2020-03-09T08:16:25Z")
Ok. I see that. I just also noticed in the variable i have not set a temperature. And i don’t know how to do that as nothing i look at seems to allow me to. ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636/21 "2020-03-09T08:53:46Z")
The temperature has changed card has a variable associated with it so you can use that in the and section. Is that what you are looking for? [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/blind-flow-help-needed/26636.md?page=2)