Homeyscript help: delay less the 1 second

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I hope someone can help me with the following. I have a flow and the default shortest delay of 1 second is to long. Is there an easy way I can wrap this in a homeyscript?

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Because flow actions are executed concurrently you cannot insert a Homeyscript action and let the rest of the actions wait for it to finish.

It might be possible to work around that by splitting your flows. I assume you have a flow like this:

  • WHEN something
  • THEN
    • perform action A
    • perform action B after 500ms (half a second)

You could rewrite it to this:

Flow 1:

  • WHEN something
  • THEN
    • perform action A
    • start Flow 2

Flow 2:

  • WHEN this flow is started
  • AND run “delay script”
  • THEN perform action B

The delay script is a Homeyscript that looks like this:

const delay = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

await delay(500);
return true;

However, such a delay will only be approximate and will depend on how busy your Homey is.

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