# Lighting switches slowly one after the other instead of at the same time

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/lighting-switches-slowly-one-after-the-other-instead-of-at-the-same-time/56222>\
**Category:** Flows\
**Tags:** homey-bridge\
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lighting-switches-slowly-one-after-the-other-instead-of-at-the-same-time/56222 "2021-12-08T16:36:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![HansRosing84](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/hansrosing84/32/47900_2.png) [@HansRosing84](https://community.homey.app/u/HansRosing84)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lighting-switches-slowly-one-after-the-other-instead-of-at-the-same-time/56222/1 "2021-12-08T16:36:05Z")

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Good evening,

I have reduced the kaku lamps in my living room and go slowly towards zigbee.

When I still had a lot of kaku I had made a device “all lamps” that switched everything. And then added a device for each lamp. Now I have zigbee and I don’t think they listen to multiple signals.

I don’t know if it’s because of the speed of homey bridge, or if it’s also the same with the pro. But when I press my lighting on button it takes a while before everything is on one after the other. 6 lamps x 1 sec per lamp.

I like that… But my girlfriend is going crazy and immediately presses all the buttons to “solve it”. She clearly wants it faster.

Is this a homey bridge thing? Can it be solved with your cleverness?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lighting-switches-slowly-one-after-the-other-instead-of-at-the-same-time/56222/2 "2021-12-08T17:54:31Z")

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It sounds like a Bridge thing; with Homey Pro, you end up with a random half of your light not being switched on or off (in other words: flows that control multiple devices tend to not work very well on Homey).

There’s a basic Zigbee feature called “grouping” where you can make devices part of a group, and send one Zigbee command to that group to turn all lights in the group on/off. Sadly, Homey (Bridge ór Pro) doesn’t support this feature.

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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:** [December 8, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lighting-switches-slowly-one-after-the-other-instead-of-at-the-same-time/56222/3 "2021-12-08T21:55:16Z")

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It’s a pity a 2021 Homey Bridge device can’t turn on a bunch of zigbee lights at once… (I understood it uses the same hardware as a 201x Homey ‘Pro’)  
**But…**  
A workaround can be:

- Flow A  
If…  
Switch A is turned on  
Then…  
Turn on Lamp A  
And…  
Start flow B

- Flow B  
If…  
this flow was started  
Then…  
Turn on Lamp B  
And…  
Start flow C

- Flow C  
If…  
this flow was started  
Then…  
Turn on Lamp C  
And…  
Start flow D

A bunch of extra work maybe, but it _could_ (not tested) make the lights to be switched on, one right after the other, instead of one per sec
