Creating a Flow for Homey Bridge without a timer

Flows
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Hello everyone,

I’m brand new here, and I don’t know if this is the right place to ask this question.

But I wanted to create a flow that sends a notification if the front door is left open. I have 2 little ones who regularly forget to close the door behind them, with the result that the front door has been left open several times for a long time.

I don’t always want to be notified when we go in and out, so I wanted the notification to come after a few minutes. How could I solve this, I tried this with a delay on the notification, but then the notification comes 3 min later every time the door is opened.

Since the homey bridge does not have a timer function or variable, I wondered if I could solve this differently? I couldn’t solve this with a zone either, since you can only trigger something if a zone is inactive for x number of minutes. I should be able to reverse this trigger “if” the zone is active x number of minutes “then” push notification.

anyone an idea? :slight_smile: Thanks in advance

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Welcome @BenjamienClauwaert!

I would suggest 2 flows.

Flow1:
IF door is opened
AND -
Then start flow 2 after x mins

Flow 2 :
IF flow is started
AND door is open
Then: send notification

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I would have suggest this flow and placing the door sensor in a separate zone.

but this Trigger is Homey Pro only. (Homey only has the become active trigger without timer)

Once again something to ask Athom with this feature request for timers. …

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thanks @matrover! just tested and the 2 separate flows do what I wanted to achieve :slight_smile:

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How does this cancel the first flow when the door is closed ‘on time’? Wouldn’t this result in a notification for every opening of the door, but then just with a delay of 2, minutes?

Edit: a i suppose the checking if the door is still open fixes a lot. But stil 3 times open/close and then keeping it open, would result in 3 notifications. Canceling a pending delay would be nice…

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You can disable the first flow in the first flow and enable it again in the second flow (both, when door is open and when door is closed)

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Will disabling the first flow stop the current execution of the timer? So will this prevent the second flow from running?

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Nope.(at least last time I tested on a Pro)
I guess this is the best possible solution.

Please test and let us know.

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Tested the disabling of flows on the bridge, doesn’t work indeed/either

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Hi all,

i’ve created these 2 flows in homey beta… and they do what I wanted to achieve. Successfully tested several times… I don’t get notifications if the door has been open for less than 2 minutes.

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