# Disable devices
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** featurerequest
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705 "2021-10-05T10:28:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Alberto](https://community.homey.app/u/Alberto)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/1 "2021-10-05T10:28:57Z")
Hello, I’d like to know if there’s a way to “disable” a device.
in my case, i want to disable the doors commands when the alarm signal is ON in this way I can prevent to open the doors for mistake
thanks
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### Author:  [@JPe4619](https://community.homey.app/u/JPe4619)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/2 "2021-10-05T10:33:04Z")
You can disable and enable Flows for this function.
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### Author:  [@Edwin\_D](https://community.homey.app/u/Edwin_D)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/3 "2021-10-05T13:45:49Z")
> [@Alberto](#):
>
> prevent to open the doors
You can prevent that flows are triggered when a door opens by disabeling the flows as stated above, but you cannot prevent the door from being opened. I assume you meant the flows, or did you want to block the door instead?
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/4 "2021-10-05T13:57:16Z")
Besides the disabling of the “open the door” flows,
Maybe something like this for the “Open the door” device:
IF
“open the door” device is pressed
AND
alarm state is OFF
THEN
open door
ELSE
notification: Door is not opened while alarm state is ON
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### Author:  [@Alberto](https://community.homey.app/u/Alberto)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/5 "2021-10-05T13:58:17Z")
I mean to disable directly the device
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/6 "2021-10-05T14:04:24Z")
I don’t think that is possible.
But,
You can “hide” the original devices, and create virtual devices to replace them. Those VD’s then trigger the door open flows.
I “hide” devices by moving them to a zone called zz.Zone-do-not-use or 999.do-not-use.
This way they should end up below all other zones.
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### Author:  [@Philip\_Montgomery](https://community.homey.app/u/Philip_Montgomery)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/7 "2021-10-05T14:20:45Z")
Depends on the device. It is possible to use a flow to disable a device and then reenable it with a different flow. I do this with Hue Sensors
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### Author:  [@Edwin\_D](https://community.homey.app/u/Edwin_D)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/8 "2021-10-05T15:16:52Z")
Maybe it helps to know what “device” we are talking about and what “commands” you want to prevent from happening. I am guessing it is more a question for the device manufacturer than it is for the Homey integration.
E.g. Homey cannot prevent direct interaction with a device, commands through direct integrations with Google Home or Alexa etc. - unless the device itself can be blocked. Homey can only stop reacting to events.
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### Author:  [@Carl\_Anton\_Stenling](https://community.homey.app/u/Carl_Anton_Stenling)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 6:05am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/9 "2024-07-28T06:05:15Z")
It is possible to disable an app and that may do the trick in some situations where the app has only one device. For instance I disable the Tesla app when going on holiday so that Homey stops polling the car.
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### Author:  [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disable-devices/52705/11 "2024-07-28T15:30:16Z")
Guess duplicate of this request [[FeatureRequest] make it possible to disable a device](https://community.homey.app/t/featurerequest-make-it-possible-to-disable-a-device/12428)