# Homey Pro crashing to red LED ring when making a backup

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-crashing-to-red-led-ring-when-making-a-backup/100106>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Tags:** homey-pro, crash, red-led, red-ring\
**Created:** [January 5, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-crashing-to-red-led-ring-when-making-a-backup/100106 "2024-01-05T15:43:17Z")\
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**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:** [November 4, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-crashing-to-red-led-ring-when-making-a-backup/100106/93 "2025-11-04T18:28:26Z")

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You can revert to the stable firmware pretty easy (from v12.9.0-rc.x to v12.8.2 in your case)

> [@\[HowTo\]\[Pro 2023/Mini\] Revert from experimental to stable firmware](https://community.homey.app/t/howto-pro-2023-mini-revert-from-experimental-to-stable-firmware/100752):
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> [As tested by @Henk_Renting and @Mickel_Luiten (Thx!)] Limitations Without an offline backup, you couldn’t & you can’t revert from the current stable firmware to the previous stable firmware version! Example: Reverting from v10.2.1 to v10.2.0 → cross_mark Reverting from v10.2.1-rc.1 to v10.2.0 → white_check_mark → [Click here](https://community.homey.app/t/howto-pro-201x-revert-from-experimental-to-stable-firmware/63200) for the Homey Pro 2016-2019 howto How to: Disable experimental updates @ [https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/settings](https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/settings) Disabling experimental updates is key …

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