# Intermittent Failure of Homey App Automations

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/intermittent-failure-of-homey-app-automations/116008>\
**Category:** Apps\
**Created:** [September 14, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/intermittent-failure-of-homey-app-automations/116008 "2024-09-14T07:02:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![picira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/picira/32/113861_2.png) [@picira](https://community.homey.app/u/picira)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/intermittent-failure-of-homey-app-automations/116008/1 "2024-09-14T07:02:37Z")

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Hello

I am facing a frustrating issue with my Homey setup; and I hope someone here can offer some guidance or suggestions. I’ve been using Homey for a while now and have set up several automations (flows) using various apps.

However; I’ve recently started encountering a problem where some of my automations fail to trigger intermittently. 🙃 What’s strange is that this doesn’t seem to be isolated to one app or type of automation; it occurs sporadically across different apps; and sometimes the same automation works perfectly one day and fails the next.

A light automation triggered by a motion sensor might work in the morning but fail in the evening; even though the motion sensor itself registers movement.  
Another automation involving temperature and humidity sensors sometimes won’t activate the smart thermostat or fan; despite the devices being responsive when controlled manually through the Homey app.

I have tried restarting the Homey hub to see if that resets any underlying issue. Restarting individual apps that I suspect might be causing the problem. Also checked the app logs; but I haven’t found any consistent errors ; warning messages around the time the automations fail. I have checked [https://community.homey.app/t/flow-not-working-automatically/104234-](https://community.homey.app/t/flow-not-working-automatically/104234-) [sfmc](https://www.igmguru.com/salesforce/salesforce-marketing-cloud-training) guide for reference but still need help .

Has anyone else encountered sporadic failures with their Homey automations?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Adrian\_Rockall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/adrian_rockall/32/13209_2.png) [@Adrian\_Rockall](https://community.homey.app/u/Adrian_Rockall)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/intermittent-failure-of-homey-app-automations/116008/2 "2024-09-14T10:57:07Z")

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What Homey do you have and what firmware version is it running?  
Are the devices that intermittently fail all using the same technology, e.g. Z-Wave?  
Is it the trigger or the send that fails?

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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:** [September 14, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/intermittent-failure-of-homey-app-automations/116008/3 "2024-09-14T13:47:14Z")

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Agree with Adrian.  
Also, what apps is it about?  
To me it sounds like wireless system issues.

I’ve never encountered a flow / automation not functioning as it should (you’ll discover with apps mentioned below).

You can try to log with [Simple Log](https://community.homey.app/t/77533) (it can add log cards to all your flow cards in one go with a script);  
And / or the [Audit (log) app](https://community.homey.app/t/101554) (still work in progress, but it logs anything out of the box).