Homey Pro "remember" settings

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Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to Homey Pro and have already set up quite a few flows. Everything works as expected, which is great. However, I’ve run into a situation where I’m not sure what the best approach is.

When I leave the house (for example, to walk the dog) and return later, certain flows are triggered and devices are set to predefined values. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but I would like to make it a bit smarter.

What I’m looking for is a way to “remember” or store the current state of my devices when I leave the house, and restore them when I come back — kind of like a snapshot or preset of the situation as I left it.

Example:

  • A flow turns on the lights at 50% when I arrive home.

  • During the evening, I manually dim the lights to 34%.

  • I leave the house briefly.

  • When I return, the flow turns the lights back to 50%, instead of the 34% they were set to before I left.

Is there a way in Homey to:

  • Save the current state of devices (lights, TV, etc.) when leaving?

  • Restore those exact states when returning home?

Maybe using Logic variables, Advanced Flows, zones, or a specific app?

I’m curious how others handle this and what the recommended solution would be.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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You could save the percentage in a variable. However, when you return home, how does the flow decides to use the 50% or the saved percentage? In other words, when this flow always uses the saved percentage, which event will set the reset the percentage to 50%?

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You could remember a zone state and use it later.

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Set a timer… let Homey save the current setting, but ‘erase’ it if the timer ends and noboby came home.

So, save settings for 10-15 minutes, if you come back before timer ends, use saved settings … if you’r not back afer 15 minutes, reset to default…

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You can store lights (and nothing else) states with the built-in “Moods” as well.

There’s also a new app in progress, Boolean Toolbox Smart (Components) Toolkit, which can capture and restore states quite flexible, and imho it’s much easier to save a state or scene compared to Zone Memory.

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