Flows that work and ideas

To make my flows more flexible I did the following:
There are several times at the day that I want to start a flow. Example: wake up, breakfast time, going to bed etc.

At these moments several flows will be started. Example: at wake up. Several flows start to put lights on in kitchen living hallway etc (seperate flows because they all check a seperate lux sensors on if it is dark)

So what what if I change my pattern of waking up?
Then I need to change the timer on all these flows.

Thats why I creates a virtual device (button not switch!) for every moment.
I use that device to trigger all the flows
And I use one “time-triggered” flow that presses the button of the virtual device.

Now if my pattern changed I only need to change the time in the flow that triggers the virtual device.

PS: do not create a virtual device switch! If you switch on a switch that already has the status “on” homey does not trigger the flow. So your flow will only work once (unless you add a switch off every time, but that is useless). A virtual button works every time

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