So I haven’t been using delay much in flows but today I had a need for it to do a temporary flow. I bought seven Zigbee bulbs for a dinner table lamp and it turned out that I have too many Zigbee devices in my system. After including the bulbs Homey went completely haywire…so I had to delete the bul…

What do you mean by too many ZigBee devices? There’s a maximum to the devices directly connected to Homey, but the routers (mains powered ZigBee devices) extend the signal. AFAIK there’s no maximum number of devices in the ZigBee network, only the devices that aren’t connected via a router. You can…

This thread is about the delay card in Homey, so we shouldn’t discuss Zigbee network or Eglo bulbs here. The bulbs are reseted and put in their packaging to be returned to Amazon. :+1:

[image] Paxman: After copying the different time stamps using delay I realised that 1 second delay gives about 3 seconds action in Homey. is that executing the flow or testing a Advanced flow that has all kind of Slowwwww animations?

[image] Paxman: This thread is about the delay card in Homey [2026-01-24T15:02:00.009Z] Start Timing Seconds for Paxman [2026-01-24T15:02:01.170Z] Timing 1 Second [2026-01-24T15:02:02.255Z] Timing 1 Second [2026-01-24T15:02:03.372Z] Timing 1 Second [2026-01-24T15:02:04.495Z] …

Reading this: [image] Paxman: It should be stated that I used a 433 MHz plug And seeing the results of @Dijker ’s test I wouldn’t say this thread is about the delay card in Homey :wink:

[IMG_2073] [IMG_2074] [Schermafbeelding 2026-01-24 om 16.28.04] Using the test-button in edit-flow-screen the flow took 90001 milliseconds to complete. Using the play-button in the flows-list the flow took 58089 milliseconds to complete. All the delay-cards together is 58000 milliseconds. So…

[image] Wim_Post: Using the play-button in the flows-list the flow took 58089 milliseconds to complete. All the delay-cards together is 58000 milliseconds. I count 57 seconds in your flow above, but your flow also measures the execution of the Light App. ideal you should also remove these a…

[image] Dijker: It is about the visualisation… so Testing - not the normal executing a flow. That’s interesting…I did not know that. So if I had used say a remote as a trigger instead of the play button in the flow itself the slow animation of the strings between the cards would not have happ…

Delay in flows is not very accurate

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Dijker January 24, 2026, 6:22pm 10

Somthing like that has been asked before [FAQ][Advanced Flow] Infinite canvas. Infinite creativity - #42 by Dijker

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