Hi,
I have a Energy Dongle from Homey. I use ‘if power has changed’ and ‘power is less than -50’ (enough solar energy), I activate some smart plugs to start charging certain things (low power).
Really, just a simple flow but it keeps shutting itself down because it’s used to often…
The only trigger to check the flow is the power change on the energy dongle. I don’t understand why it’s shutting itself down. I wouldn’t mind if the system only checked every minute but I don’t know how to do that…
Any help please
Thanks!
Probably the 'if power has changed’ is causing the deactivation. Not sure how many times the Energy Dongle probes the current power consumption, but it may be to often for the flow.
If you want to check the current power consumption every minute you can create a flow based on the following cards:
The trigger is a date/time card that executes every minute. Next you use a Logic card to check whether the current power consumption (which is typically included in tag provided by the Energy Dongle) is smaller than the threshold you want. In the example (my P1 meter; not a Homey Energy Dongle) the current power consumption is stored in the ‘Vermogen totaal’ tag.
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It sends updates every second.
Power is a very fluctuating value, it probably triggers the flow every second as well.
To @Anthony_Verhaeghe :
It’s a mechanism to prevent Homey from running out of memory.
It’s a pity Athom didn’t bother to send a decent and clear description to the timeline, of why exactly a flow was disabled by Homey.
So, when you only want to control things when power gets above or below zero, you’d use the “When power became greater than” / “When power became less than” trigger.
Another method is used by this neat and highly adjustable Device Capabilities app trigger card:
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