Making lights blink

Anyone know the best way to make lights blink? Any apps? Like i want my light to dim to 25 and back to 100% and blink like that, but i don’t know the best way to do it. Using the every 5 second when card kinda worked, but i want a better way.

You can use transitions for instance.
Apps: Transitions and Chronograph.

To toggle a light every other 2 seconds, during 1 minute:
Flow 1:
When…
blinking light is needed
Then…
start transition Y from 0 to 30 during 60 seconds

Flow 2:
When…
transition Y has reached a step
Then…
toggle light X

Same stuff can be done with the app called Loops

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Thanks!

John Wiliam wants to blink between 25% and 100%.
So instead of toggleling the light I would suggest a transition with 2 seconds between the steps
WHEN
transition reached a step
THEN
dim to 25%
Wait 1 second
Dim to 100%

I tried the loops app which works pretty great! should i consider trying the other app y’all talking about too? i don’t know what would work best?

Cool!
I think it doesn’t matter.
Only if you had Chronograph installed already, it can save Homey’s memory for running an additional app like Loops.

I think i tested a little too much. My flow got deactivated for running too many times? (it wasn’t the flow i use, but a test flow where i tested how fast i could loop things. Looks like homey didn’t like that.)

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You can re-enable the flow by right clicking the flow name and choosing Enable. Of course you would need to update the flow itself in order for it to not get disabled again.

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Yeah, as i said there was no problems with what i made. Just a flow i made to test, like repeat 20 times with delay 2 milliseconds. And that wasn’t really a good idea :joy: edit: do you know the limit tho?

Haha okay :grinning:. I don’t know what the actual threshold is when Homey decides to disable a flow. But I once had a flow being disabled by Homey when executed about 15-20 times in a second.

Oh, alright. Thanks!