# Multiple Philips Hue commands in a single flow

**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/multiple-philips-hue-commands-in-a-single-flow/30674
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** app, flow
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/multiple-philips-hue-commands-in-a-single-flow/30674 "2020-05-31T18:35:45Z")
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### Author: ![Quakerix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/quakerix/32/10155_2.png) [@Quakerix](https://community.homey.app/u/Quakerix)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/multiple-philips-hue-commands-in-a-single-flow/30674/1 "2020-05-31T18:35:45Z")

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Hi everyone,

What’s your experience in the amount of actions you can do at the same time towards Hue devices (via a bridge).

I have a simple flow that does 4 Hue calls, one delayed after 4 seconds, and one after 10 seconds.

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First of all, i have the feeling that ‘homey’ seconds are quite quick. But if you run this flow 20 times. You’ll notice about 10 to 20% of the times that one of the commands isn’t executed.

What’s the best approach. Is my Hue Bridge overloaded? Is Homey doing something weird?

I think i have 25 lights. That doesn’t yet sounds as too much.

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### Author: ![Quakerix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/quakerix/32/10155_2.png) [@Quakerix](https://community.homey.app/u/Quakerix)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/multiple-philips-hue-commands-in-a-single-flow/30674/3 "2020-05-31T19:09:32Z")

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I know i can use that card, but I don’t want to do that.

I want to turn off a single hue device, turn the color of the hue strip to X, make sure its at 100% brightness and for the coming 900 seconds dim it to 10%

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### Author: ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/multiple-philips-hue-commands-in-a-single-flow/30674/4 "2020-06-01T04:10:35Z")

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I have 2 Hue lamps in my living room that change from a cold light (during the day) to a warm light (in the evening) at a certain time within 120 seconds. Hue, saturation and temperature are changed simultaneously.  
In the beginning the change started at the same time with both lamps and I had similar problems as you. It happened again and again that one lamp did not change from “cold” to “warm”. Since I delayed the start of the light change for one lamp by 5 seconds, it works 100%. It may also be possible to delay the start of the light change by less than 5 seconds, I haven’t tried that yet.

Summary:

- Changing 3 parameters simultaneously (1 lamp): works
- Changing 3 parameters on 2 lamps simultaneously: does not work 100%.
- Changing 3 parameters on 2 lamps with a delay (between the lamps): works

As far as I know, there is a 1-2 second delay between Homey and the Hue-Bridge. So it could be quite possible that commands are lost if too many commands are sent at the same time.
