I’m newbie to Homey moving up from smartthings is the flow correct and will i run into issues down the road
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You can leave out the last ‘the time is between…’ check as that will automatically be the case if the flow follows that route.
You can test the flow by right clicking a card and select the ‘test from here’ option.
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You could replace ‘the motion alarm turned on’ by ‘this zone became active.
You could replace ‘the motion alarm turned of’, the ‘wait 15 minutes’ and ‘the zone is inactive’ by one ‘the zone is inactive for 15 minutes’-card
Be aware that once the ‘wait 50 seconds’-card is started, it can be interrupted. Better use a timer/countdown that can be stopped by new motion.
(with my motion sensor I can adjust the ‘blindtime’ and the ‘alarmtime’. I have set it to 30 and 300 seconds. After 30 seconds it can detect new motion and the 300 seconds alarmtime starts again.)
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When motion is detected between 23h30 and 5h00 nothing will happen as the “then” flow card is connected to the “false” output of the “and” flow card. In other words, your lights will never be set to 45%.
The suggestion made earlier to leave the last check out would actually solve this.
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i don’t see any timer\countdowns in the menu
You’ll need an app that provides that functionality, like the Chronograph app.
According “Zone Activity”; it only works if no other sensors, such as door/window sensors, affect the zone activity.
For motion detectors, presence detectors, and door/window sensors, you can configure in the advanced settings whether or not they should affect the zone activity.
Tutorial → Using Zone Activity
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Looks good. Should work as intended.
Minor remark: as @SunBeech already pointed out. If it’s not between 5:00 and 18:30 (yellow line) and it’s not between 18:30 and 23:30 (yellow line) it must be between 23:30 and 5:00. So you can connect the second yellow line straight to the ‘dim bulb to 45%’-card and remove the ‘it’s between 23:30 and 5:00’-card.
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