# How do I "override" flows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Flows\ **Tags:** homey-pro\ **Created:** [February 24, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472 "2025-02-24T11:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kenneth_wedmore_lund/32/128966_2.png) [@Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](https://community.homey.app/u/Kenneth_WedMore_Lund)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/1 "2025-02-24T11:37:23Z")
How do you handle rooms and/or flows where it’s just “autopilot” most of the time but at some occasions, you want to override the flows? Let me give you my specific case: 1. I have 3 lights in my kitchen and a motion sensor 2. During daytime, movement turns on “mood 1” and during nighttime, it turns on “mood 2” 3. Let’s say I have a party Friday night and want a fixed lighting setup with specific colors, no automations / flows / conditions etc. but also for the system to “fall back” to running the “auto flow” again Saturday morning How do I handle this without going to the app and deactivating flows? ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_de\_Koning](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_de_koning/32/136062_2.png) [@Theo\_de\_Koning](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_de_Koning)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/2 "2025-02-24T11:47:41Z")
> [@Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](#): > > without going to the app Also not for pushing one of the virtual switches for the color setting that you want? ---
**Author:** ![Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kenneth_wedmore_lund/32/128966_2.png) [@Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](https://community.homey.app/u/Kenneth_WedMore_Lund)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/3 "2025-02-24T12:14:29Z")
I’m not sure what you mean but if I run a different mode, it succeeds, but then just goes back to the mood from the flow whenever the motion detectors sees movement… ---
**Author:** ![Hsd1965](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/hsd1965/32/30160_2.png) [@Hsd1965](https://community.homey.app/u/Hsd1965)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/4 "2025-02-24T12:42:23Z")
Besides from deactivating the flow there is no standard way of doing this. You need to create the logic yourself. Options to “program” this in the flows are: - Create a virtual override button and when this button is “on” don’t respond to the motion sensor. - Create a separate flow that toggles the active status of the other flows that use the motion sensor. - When the motion sensor activates then first check if the lights are already on and if so do nothing. So the mood will only be activated when the lights are off. If they are already on they won’t be changed. The latter is my preferred way: Don’t let the flow change the lights when they are already active. ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_de\_Koning](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_de_koning/32/136062_2.png) [@Theo\_de\_Koning](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_de_Koning)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/5 "2025-02-24T13:29:09Z")
Your point 3. > [@Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](#): > > fixed lighting setup with specific colors That’s is then mood 3 - xx. Starting those new moods you have to use your app. Even coverup the sensor on Friday is so NOT working. > [@Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](#): > > without going to the app ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_Henderson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/andy_henderson/32/80642_2.png) [@Andy\_Henderson](https://community.homey.app/u/Andy_Henderson)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/6 "2025-02-24T13:53:42Z")
> [@Kenneth\_WedMore\_Lund](#): > > How do I handle this without going to the app and deactivating flows? I’d create a boolean variable, say PartyOverride, and set it via the Homey app (or some other method) to true. You can then use the variable in your flows to decide what to do. You could then set the variable to false some time every Saturday morning to restore normal behaviour automatically. Andy ---
**Author:** ![Theo\_de\_Koning](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/theo_de_koning/32/136062_2.png) [@Theo\_de\_Koning](https://community.homey.app/u/Theo_de_Koning)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/7 "2025-02-24T19:39:57Z")
Then you have to **using the app** to change that variable when you like for a Friday having a party with specific colors for that party. When you use now your voice to let devices going on/off, then virtuele switches can work. ---
**Author:** ![Anders\_Gregow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/anders_gregow/32/61721_2.png) [@Anders\_Gregow](https://community.homey.app/u/Anders_Gregow)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/8 "2025-02-25T14:17:01Z")
Buy a button and use it as suggested above. ---
**Author:** ![Vinzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b3f665/32.png) [@Vinzzz](https://community.homey.app/u/Vinzzz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-do-i-override-flows/131472/9 "2025-03-06T10:41:49Z")
Bonjour, L’idéal est, comme suggéré ci-dessus, d’avoir un bouton quelconque qui permette d’activer/désactiver vos flows. J’ai des interrupteurs Shelly qui ont les fonctions suivantes : - simple pression - double pression - triple pression - pression longue Cela donne déjà beaucoup de possibilités ! De plus, quand la zone est inactive pendant 30 minutes, les flows normaux se réactivent seuls et les autres se désactivent. Hello, The ideal is, as suggested above, to have any button to activate/deactivate your flows. I have Shelly switches that have the following functions: - Simple Pressure - Double Pressure - Triple Pressure - Long Pressure This already gives a lot of possibilities! In addition, when the area is inactive for 30 minutes, the normal flows reactivate on their own and the others turn off.