Detect a flow has run

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Hi All,

In order to push messages from Homey towards my local Monitoring Database I want to able to detect a flow has run, and then push the flow-name towards an API.

Currently I am solving this by adding a “Change Variable” Card in every single flow. And based upon the changed varible I am pushing a value towards my DB. But with many flows, this is combersome work.

Could I use HomeyScript to detect every flow that has run?

regards,

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No. Even if Homeyscript was able to keep scripts running, there doesn’t seem to be an event that gets fired when a flow runs.

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The [App][Pro] PaperTrails Log - Advanced Logging and Log management (v0.6.3) can add a logging line to every flow and sent that to a syslog server. May be of use to you?

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@robertklep & @HenkWillem Somehow flow runs are detected and registered (and counted):
when you hover a flowname @ my.homey.app it shows the number of runs.

Just a brainfart:
If how and where is known, one could run a flow every minute which calls a script which compares the flow-run-counters, to filter out the flows that ran that minute and log them.

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The trigger count for each flow is contained within the results of Homey.flow.getFlows().

For example, to show all flows and their trigger count:

const flows = await Homey.flow.getFlows();

for (const [ id, flow ] of Object.entries(flows)) {
  const { name, triggerCount } = flow;

  console.log(name, ':', triggerCount);
}

So you could periodically run a Homeyscript that would collect all the trigger counts, compare them with the previous run, and have a list of flows that have run since that last run.

Nice idea, @Peter_Kawa! :+1:t2:

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