# Date & Time: every x min card not triggering?

**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/date-time-every-x-min-card-not-triggering/154588
**Category:** Flows
**Tags:** advancedflow
**Created:** [May 6, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/date-time-every-x-min-card-not-triggering/154588 "2026-05-06T15:11:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Crapton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/crapton/32/15039_2.png) [@Crapton](https://community.homey.app/u/Crapton)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/date-time-every-x-min-card-not-triggering/154588/1 "2026-05-06T15:11:22Z")

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I have made an advanced flow, supposed to trigger every 3 mins using one of the the Date&Time cards. As I observed unexpected behaviour I added a Mobile notification card immediatedly after the trigger. Results are as below, with an unexpected gap from 14:48 to 16:42, almost 2 hours.

The flow itself is simple and fairly short, and does not have other delay timers or so.

I noticed similar erroneous behaviour in **another flow** using the Modbus app, and there I added some 1 sec “wait” timers between Modbus commands. That made it work reliably.

I just now added some wait timers in this flow and see if it will consistently trigger. Btw I have an early 2018 old-skool Homey. I find this Homey behaviour extremely annoying, it appears not reliable even for the most basic of functions. No warning, nothing, it just does not appear to work as required.

Questions:

1. Are there other users experiencing similar problems using Date&Time cards not triggering?
2. Suggestions for root causes? Only for Advanced flows? Could it be max no of notifications or notification buffer or so - however this does not explain below.
3. Suggestions for solutions?

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### Author: ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/date-time-every-x-min-card-not-triggering/154588/2 "2026-05-06T15:19:59Z")

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Make sure the “blind” time is caused by the trigger, because maybe it’s caused by the notification card(s) you use (!).

Timeline- and push notifications can be subject to rate limits (without any warning) →   
To catch this limit, in _Advanced Flow_ you’d add a card to the error output of just one random Timeline card, and to one of each Push notification card type.  
Log cards of the [Simple Log app](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-simple-sys-log-use-this-app-for-simple-sys-logging/77533) are great to use for this, and I use Signal and Telegram (as part of the [CallmeBot WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook messenger app](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-whatsapp-signal-telegram-facebook-messenger/48374)) flow cards to report stuff.

> [@Crapton](#):
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> Are there other users experiencing similar problems using Date&Time cards not triggering?

No.  
But I’m experiencing unpredictable flakiness in Sun cards of that department.

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### Author: ![Bubiai\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@Bubiai\_2](https://community.homey.app/u/Bubiai_2)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/date-time-every-x-min-card-not-triggering/154588/3 "2026-05-06T16:28:50Z")

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I’m having occasional issues with the execution.

For instance: when it’s 13:00, the relay turns ON.

When the relay is ON, it should turn OFF after a 20-minute delay