# Flow for turning off heating source if window is open **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** advancedflow\ **Created:** [January 4, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/flow-for-turning-off-heating-source-if-window-is-open/99967 "2024-01-04T11:45:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon78407409](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon78407409](https://community.homey.app/u/anon78407409)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/flow-for-turning-off-heating-source-if-window-is-open/99967/1 "2024-01-04T11:45:26Z")
Hi! I’m new to advanced flow, and I’m trying to figure out a simple way to turn off the heat if a window is open. My HeatIt thermostats for floor heating have a “on” or “off” card, and I have Aqara door/window sensors on the windows. I’d like to have a generic flow that can handle all these situations rather than having one for each thermostat and window. If a window has been left open for more than 3 minutes - turn the heat off until it’s closed again. But there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to handle this? I could go without the timer, but still it doesn’t seem to have a generic sensor and “on/off” device I can control with labels? Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![DirkH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkh/32/78952_2.png) [@DirkH](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkH)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/flow-for-turning-off-heating-source-if-window-is-open/99967/2 "2024-01-04T14:30:45Z")
Hi @anon78407409 , I am not sure, if I understand you right. For many sensors there is a _If…_ card **IsOpen for _xxx_ minutes** as well as **IsClosed** or similar and for the heating system there should be some cards to switch them on and off or to change temperature. With simple cards you must write one Flow for _WindowOpen_ and one for _WindowClosed_, If you have several windows in the same room you may use cards on the zone where you put the devices. I do not have those sensors so I do not know how exactly they look like. But if you want a simple flow that works in all rooms, like _If…_ something happens on a device _Then…_ switch on/off heating in the room, where the device is, I do not have a clue if it works with simple ore advanced flows. Probably you have to try _Scripts_ which I did not yet. ---
**Author:** ![anon78407409](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon78407409](https://community.homey.app/u/anon78407409)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/flow-for-turning-off-heating-source-if-window-is-open/99967/3 "2024-01-05T11:17:03Z")
I’ll take a closer look on what the cards can do. The sensor is basically a contact alarm. So it’s active when the window is open. If advanced flows are using more resources than simple ones, I can of course just use a normal flow, but that would mean a WindowOpen and WindowClosed for each room. This does of course work, but I was hoping there was an easy way to use labels for rooms; “If window in **room 1** is open for more than 1 minute, turn off heating in **room 1** ” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/flow-for-turning-off-heating-source-if-window-is-open/99967/4 "2024-01-12T15:38:47Z")
> [@anon78407409](#): > > If a window has been left open for more than 3 minutes - Device capabilities app: ![Screenshot from 2024-01-12 16-38-21](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/8/c820bd38eb27265b3ca4efbcf12c939e53ad6b84.png)