# Error: Homey Offline when trying to run my own app

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/error-homey-offline-when-trying-to-run-my-own-app/115196>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [August 29, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/error-homey-offline-when-trying-to-run-my-own-app/115196 "2024-08-29T19:36:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnnyDrama](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/johnnydrama/32/80488_2.png) [@johnnyDrama](https://community.homey.app/u/johnnyDrama)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/error-homey-offline-when-trying-to-run-my-own-app/115196/1 "2024-08-29T19:36:27Z")

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Hi,

Beginner developer here…I have been working on my own app, but after updating Visual Studio Code I can’t seem to run my app anymore…

I run the command `homey app run` as well as `homey app run --remote` and I keep getting

```auto
Error: Homey Offline
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homey/node_modules/homey-api/lib/HomeyAPI/HomeyAPIV3.js:377:29
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

```

My feeling is that I didn’t change anything since last time. But I guess I updated the firmware to 12.0.0 quite recently…

Running on Homey Pro (2023).

Any ideas what might be wrong? I can access the Home perfectly through both web and mobile app. And an instance of my own app is still running on it…

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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:** [August 29, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/error-homey-offline-when-trying-to-run-my-own-app/115196/2 "2024-08-29T19:55:16Z")

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If Homey is connected by wifi: Maybe your app uses to much memory, check it at [developer page](https://tools.developer.homey.app/apps).  
With my Pro19 I can reproduce the “_Homey is offline_” bug, by letting Homeyscript run too many scripts at once.  
The memory use of Hscript gets too high and seems to kill the wifi implementation in some way.

> [@johnnyDrama](#):
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> And an instance of my own app is still running on it…

Uninstall it first with the phone/web app, before trying to run it again.

And you can try `homey select` to see if it presents your Homey, maybe it helps when you select it again.

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**Author:** ![D3X](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/d3x/32/114780_2.png) [@D3X](https://community.homey.app/u/D3X)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/error-homey-offline-when-trying-to-run-my-own-app/115196/3 "2024-10-06T22:59:01Z")

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I was getting the same error.  
I was able to open the file of that homey-api, and found that it is trying to do a local ping to reach homey. Which lead me to the solution: my computer switched to the wrong wifi-network. It seems to expect homey to be running in the same network, and not to transfer the app via internet.

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**Author:** ![ferno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ferno/32/79177_2.png) [@ferno](https://community.homey.app/u/ferno)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/error-homey-offline-when-trying-to-run-my-own-app/115196/4 "2024-11-07T15:42:23Z")

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I had the same error, just restarted Homey and everything returned back to normal…