# Change "is turned on" to "is on" for cards in the And part of a flow
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/change-is-turned-on-to-is-on-for-cards-in-the-and-part-of-a-flow/48065
**Category:** Ideas & Suggestions
**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/change-is-turned-on-to-is-on-for-cards-in-the-and-part-of-a-flow/48065 "2021-06-02T15:12:03Z")
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### Author:  [@K\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/K_S)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/change-is-turned-on-to-is-on-for-cards-in-the-and-part-of-a-flow/48065/1 "2021-06-02T15:12:03Z")
It’s confusing if you add a card to the “And” section of a flow if the card says [Device] “is turned on”. That implies [in English] that the And criterion is a device is switched from the off state to the on state, not that the device is already on. That would be a second trigger
It would be less confusing [and better English] to have the card say
[Device] “is on” or
[Device] “is already on” or (for split infinitive pedants),
[Device] “is on already”
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### Author:  [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/change-is-turned-on-to-is-on-for-cards-in-the-and-part-of-a-flow/48065/2 "2021-06-02T15:18:58Z")
Who cares? If it’s turned on, you don’t have to turn it on again. And when a device is turned on, it’s not a garantee that it is on, only for Homey the status is on.
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### Author:  [@K\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/K_S)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/change-is-turned-on-to-is-on-for-cards-in-the-and-part-of-a-flow/48065/3 "2021-06-02T16:44:40Z")
I care. And so should developers.
It’s confusing enough as it is to get flows to work they way you think they should, let alone be hindered with poor semantics / mis-translations.
As written, its wrong. It is written as one time event, when in fact it should be written as a status.
It’s a significantly different scenario to say…
“When this trigger happens AND this trigger happens [at the same time]”, than to say…
“When this trigger happens and the status of a device is this”
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### Author:  [@Edwin\_D](https://community.homey.app/u/Edwin_D)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/change-is-turned-on-to-is-on-for-cards-in-the-and-part-of-a-flow/48065/4 "2021-06-02T16:53:46Z")
You are Dutch, so if I translate it to “Wordt aangezet” you probably understand the situation a bit better. The intricacies of the English language are a lot less apparent in Dutch, so I deliberately chose the wording to show the conflict. “Is aangezet” is the easiest Dutch translation, but that is used in multiple ways. For us that could have happened a while back, in English it could not.
Now just hope my English is correct. I am Dutch too, so forgive me if I messed up. 🙂