# Homey Pro, Advanced Flow, Apple Shortcuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** flow, homey-pro, advancedflow\ **Created:** [January 6, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668 "2026-01-06T11:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jtankard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jtankard/32/150727_2.png) [@jtankard](https://community.homey.app/u/jtankard)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/1 "2026-01-06T11:09:55Z")
Hi All, New user for a week so far to the Homey Pro and so far loving it, I moved from \ ***cough cough** \* Google Home and could not be happier. I am struggling with one little thing at the moment. I have created flows and advanced flows which all work fine, one thing I have tried to do is run an advanced flow from Apple shortcusts. In Shortcusts all my standard flows are seen but the advanced flow is not so I cant automate it through shortcusts to trigger when my phone alarm goes off. I have been through multiple posts and after researching someone said add a ‘Start button’ trigger at the front of the advanced flow but I cant do that to go to a starting ‘when’ statement. Is there any reason why I can’t see and trigger an advanced flow from shortcusts. Happy for any advice….. NOTE: I have also tried adding it as a favorite and then closing shortcusts and homey app down on iphone but still doesn’t work. I just thought I would ask some long time experts of homey Pro. Thanks John ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/2 "2026-01-06T11:24:39Z")
ADD a start button to the second card of your flow. De pending upon your flow, you might want to add the card “ANY”. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/5/15e45f653a27e54ad73aa2f1cab28564cead04eb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![dsdevries](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dsdevries/32/80220_2.png) [@dsdevries](https://community.homey.app/u/dsdevries)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/3 "2026-01-06T11:24:42Z")
in order to be able to manually start an advanced flow you need to add the start button to the flow. To do so, just open your advanced flow in a web browser, Click “Add”, and choose “Start”. You can then connect the start button to any other cards. The start button is the equivalent of the “when this flow is triggered card” in regular flows. However, due to the fact that you can only have 1 start button in an advanced flow, but you could potentially add multitudes of any cards to advanced flows, Atom has decided to hide the “when this flow is triggered” card from the list and added this special start button instead. ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/4 "2026-01-06T11:27:24Z")
> [@dsdevries](#): > > you can only have 1 start button in an advanced flow with to start buttons, Homey would not know where to start the flow manually.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Post](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wim_post/32/56793_2.png) [@Wim\_Post](https://community.homey.app/u/Wim_Post)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/5 "2026-01-06T11:30:17Z")
![IMG_2052](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/4/e4df3d3a6b1794f24ff1dd269e8e969fecb5a11c.jpeg) With a ‘start’-button in an advanced flow you can only start part of this flow ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/6 "2026-01-06T11:38:02Z")
> [@Wim\_Post](#): > > With a ‘start’-button in an advanced flow you can only start part of this flow Or you have to put every (part) of the flow on its own canvas. ---
**Author:** ![jtankard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jtankard/32/150727_2.png) [@jtankard](https://community.homey.app/u/jtankard)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/7 "2026-01-06T11:56:12Z")
Thank you all for your quick responce. Working great now 🙂 - Absolutely loving Homey Pro!! ---
**Author:** ![Wim\_Post](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wim_post/32/56793_2.png) [@Wim\_Post](https://community.homey.app/u/Wim_Post)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/8 "2026-01-06T21:28:38Z")
> [@Rmb](#): > > Depending upon your flow, you might want to add the card “ANY”. What for? It doesn’t do anything. ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-advanced-flow-apple-shortcuts/148668/9 "2026-01-06T21:33:53Z")
In case the WHEN cards has connection to multiple flows it makes it clear that the WHEN card and the start botton starts the same flows.