Just took the plunge to get a homey pro and to say I am irritated is an understatement as it is the least intuitive thing to use, ever!
Eg I want to set an automation/flow that works between the hours of 1830-2230 daily AND when the light level is below 10lux, when motion is detected it turns on a light and then after 10mins of no motion it turns the light off.
Now I have that currently setup in Apple HomeKit which took me all of 20 secs to do.
I’ve searched and watched videos on YouTube and I can not see a way of how to make a simple flow like that.
No doubt this is my lack of knowledge but when I can spend 30 mins total and have my house automations all setup in the Home app on my iPhone, and I have spent the best part of 3hrs trying to setup my homey pro then something is amiss.
So any help would be greatly appreciated as at the moment I am ready to turn this thing into a £400 football and boot it over the fence!!
I’ve attached a screenshot of what I have done so far.
Start with WHEN motion is detected (that is your main trigger);
Followed by an AND card that checks whether the brightness is less than 10 lx. Most likely the brightness value is provided as a tag that you can check via a Homey logic card;
Next add an AND card that checks whether it currently is between the two times you indicated. You can use the standard Date & Time card for that;
Finally, add the THEN card that turns on the light.
Connect all these cards in the above order via the TRUE output connector, so the blue line.
Thank you that has been a big help. I am currently stuck with it not turning the light off after a defined period. Eg I set a timer for 10sec then had it do turn off. But it returned an undefined error
Are you referring the the second flow on the right hand side of your screenshot, or a different one (and can you share it)? The one in the screenshot looks okay.
First, can you check that the device type of your light (Light & Extractor - En Suite) is actually set to Light?
You can do this by opening the light’s device tile and go to its settings (cog wheel). There should be a setting Plugged In that should be set to Light.
Good to see that you tried that. I was about to suggest that as next step .
The zone card should also work, but it only works if the light you are trying to switch off is actually classified as a light. Hence my prior question.
Then that is the reason the zone card did not work.
Note that the change that made your flow work, was the one in your second flow: in stead of switching of all lights in a flow, you are now using the switch on/off card of the light itself.
You also changed the zone card in your first flow. I don’t think that is necessary, as you motion sensor triggers zone activity, which triggers your flow. However, using the card of the motion sensor itself also works. So multiple ways to achieve the same.
Mini Extreme which does have Matter, but it’s within the light fitting so would need to take it down to put it in pairing mode and I can’t be fussed with doing that now
One question I have is how do I make the automation work based on someone being at home. Eg I am setting this one up but I can’t find an option for “when someone is present”
In general, I’d recommend using timeline messages to debug those situations. I’m pleased with zone activity triggers that allowed me to replace the overengineered advanced flow.
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