Flow on a specific day

Ideas & Suggestions
1

Correct me if i’m wrong. But I can’t find a way to make an easy flow on a specific day in ‘date and Time’

Like:

Every thuesday set de outdoor lamp at 7pm on

2

In the And section you can select any given day of the week if you select «today is» under the date and time segment.

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3

You can set the day in the AND column. Trigger at 7pm and check for the day in AND.
So:
IF The time is… 19:00
AND Today is a… Tuesday
THEN Set outdoor lamp

4

But why can I only do it on a specific time. Like every thuesday set the outdoor lamp on.

5

You can.
IF the outdoor lamp is off
And the day is Tuesday
Then turn on outdoor light.

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6

Got it! Thanks

7

Then it would go on at 0:00 hours presumably if that’s even possible in Homey (which it is but only for “the date becomes”…

This is because “the outdoor lamp is off” is not a trigger, it’s a condition (for the “and”). The trigger is a specific moment/event : when I arrive home, when it’s 0.00 hours, when a button is pushed…

8

Hi, I’m new with Homey. Can anyone help how to create this very simple WHEN?:
when week day 6am OR weekend 7am
which I was able to do used 2 “cards” on my previsou smart bridge (Tuya). Thanks!

9

That are two flows
When 6am
And it is a Weekday
Then …

Second Flow
When 7a
And its a Weekend Day
Then …

10

Thanks. Yes, I think this way, too. Just want to be sure that there is no other simple way how to do that. I have a flow which starts at 6 on weekdays but at 7 in weekend.

11

Hi, I’m comming bact to this topic again. I have a “wake up light” to help my children wake-up in the morning. As they have very different schedule for each day, the light runs on a specific time almost each days (4 different times from Mon to Sat). Using Tuya smart bridge there is one flow only with different times & days with OR between:

Mon at 6:15
OR
Thu at 6:00
OR
Tue, Wed, Fri at 6:30
OR
Sat at 6:20

Making the same in Homey I need 4 different flows. As Homey has wide range of programing possibilities, would it be possible to add such simple day and time WHEN condition? I belive it will be useful for number of similar flows. (Including periods of days as sunrise or sunset.)

12

You can use the Advanced-Scheduler
app if you want to make schemes.

Personally I prefer to have 4 flows:

  1. homey is not impressed by large numbers of flows.
  2. splitting up flows keeps rhem simple and much easier to debug. Personally I split up these flows even futher (see my post on “how to structure your flows”)
13

For this case you can also use the build-in function “Alarms” (Homey Smartphone App → More → Alarms" with only one flow:

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When…
– Alarm goes on (any!)
Then…
– Whatever

If you need to use more alarms, e.g. for yourself, then you can add a name in the naming of the alarms, e.g. “Mon Parents”. Then the flow should look like this:

When…
– Alarm goes on (any!)
And…
– Name contains Parents (Logic-Card )
Then…
– Whatever

Pro tip: By using the IcalCalender app, you can easily control that an alarm should not be activated, for example, if it is a free day or the children are on vacation.

14

Thanks for the tip for Advanced Scheduler. I will check.

15

Thanks. I didn’t think of using Alarms this way. :wink:

16

4 posts were split to a new topic: Ical calender time change

17

There is actually an OR, and an ELSE. If you hold a card in the flow builder when you have multiple in the AND part, two or lines will apear. There is an explanation on this on the Homey site