# Creating a Flow for Homey Bridge without a timer **URL:** \ **Category:** Flows\ **Tags:** homey-bridge\ **Created:** [December 6, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099 "2021-12-06T16:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BenjamienClauwaert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/benjamienclauwaert/32/48322_2.png) [@BenjamienClauwaert](https://community.homey.app/u/BenjamienClauwaert)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/1 "2021-12-06T16:01:12Z")
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? 🙂 Thanks in advance ---
**Author:** ![matrover](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/matrover/32/12112_2.png) [@matrover](https://community.homey.app/u/matrover)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/2 "2021-12-06T16:07:31Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/3 "2021-12-06T16:31:51Z")
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. … ---
**Author:** ![BenjamienClauwaert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/benjamienclauwaert/32/48322_2.png) [@BenjamienClauwaert](https://community.homey.app/u/BenjamienClauwaert)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/4 "2021-12-06T20:38:51Z")
thanks @matrover! just tested and the 2 separate flows do what I wanted to achieve 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sapperdeflap](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sapperdeflap/32/33985_2.png) [@Sapperdeflap](https://community.homey.app/u/Sapperdeflap)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/5 "2021-12-06T22:29:18Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![JPe4619](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jpe4619/32/9017_2.png) [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/6 "2021-12-07T00:31:01Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Sapperdeflap](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sapperdeflap/32/33985_2.png) [@Sapperdeflap](https://community.homey.app/u/Sapperdeflap)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/7 "2021-12-07T05:56:11Z")
Will disabling the first flow stop the current execution of the timer? So will this prevent the second flow from running? ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/8 "2021-12-07T06:17:19Z")
> [@Sapperdeflap](#): > > Will disabling the first flow stop the current execution of the timer? Nope.(at least last time I tested on a Pro) I guess this is the best possible solution. Please test and let us know. ---
**Author:** ![Sapperdeflap](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sapperdeflap/32/33985_2.png) [@Sapperdeflap](https://community.homey.app/u/Sapperdeflap)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 7:05am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/9 "2021-12-07T07:05:29Z")
Tested the disabling of flows on the bridge, doesn’t work indeed/either ---
**Author:** ![BenjamienClauwaert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/benjamienclauwaert/32/48322_2.png) [@BenjamienClauwaert](https://community.homey.app/u/BenjamienClauwaert)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/creating-a-flow-for-homey-bridge-without-a-timer/56099/10 "2021-12-07T12:15:53Z")
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.