# Disabled flows
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Created:** [February 4, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604 "2026-02-04T17:17:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@JST1963](https://community.homey.app/u/JST1963)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/1 "2026-02-04T17:17:29Z")
Can anyone tell me why I regularly have flows that are disable, for no reason?
JST
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### Author:  [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/2 "2026-02-04T17:19:51Z")
Sometimes Flows disable themselves when they run/trigger too many times.
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### Author:  [@JST1963](https://community.homey.app/u/JST1963)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/3 "2026-02-04T17:24:39Z")
And what is often? 5 times a day? 10 times?
It’s like a flow that switches on the light in the bathroom. But then, sometimes it doesn’t switch anymore.
If that’s really the case, then Homey becomes useless
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### Author:  [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/4 "2026-02-04T17:49:48Z")
Often is multiple times per second.
Are you sure the flow is disabled (so you have to use the menu option to re-enable them again)? Or is the flow enabled but not triggered/executed?
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### Author:  [@Jan\_Albert](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Albert)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/5 "2026-02-04T18:48:33Z")
> [@JST1963](#):
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> And what is often?
If a flow is triggered multiple times per second continuously a flow will be disabled to protect Homey. Without this protection Homey would become unavailable.
It is always an error in the flow, the flow gets in a loop.
To detect the error, you can write an entry on the timeline and after the moment a flow becomes disabled you can see a lot of notifications. In the log of the device you can find which flow(s) is triggering the light.
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### Author:  [@Jan\_Albert](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Albert)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/6 "2026-02-04T18:59:27Z")
If you share the flow (and the log of the device) we can have a look at it
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### Author:  [@JST1963](https://community.homey.app/u/JST1963)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/7 "2026-02-04T20:14:36Z")
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### Author:  [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/8 "2026-02-04T20:26:51Z")
The bottom part of your flow will run continuously, as the ‘turn on all lights’ and ‘turn off all lights’ card will also trigger the turned on/off cards of each individual lights. Which then in turn will trigger the zone card again.
You’ll need to change the flow to include a check to first verify if a light is already turned on and switch on only the lights that are tuned off. Similarly for the turn off flow.
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### Author:  [@Jan\_Albert](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Albert)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/9 "2026-02-04T20:40:23Z")
Sunbeech is right. If you add a timeline card (after turn on/off all lights) you will see a lot off entries per second.
You are lucky that the flow will be disabled, otherwise your Homey would be stuck…..
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### Author:  [@JST1963](https://community.homey.app/u/JST1963)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/disabled-flows/150604/10 "2026-02-04T20:54:42Z")
Actually I don’t really need these entries, because its rare that only one lamp (spot) is turned on or off. I might as well delete that part.
Thanks guys.
JST