How can I create a flow that adds a log entry and/or sends a notification when any of my devices is turned on or off? There is a flow card that you can use to report when any device has not reported to Homey, but I cannot seem to find this for status changes. Do I really need to create separate fl…

Depends on what you would like to log to. There are a few apps that could do it for you, but they log to a Influx of Microsoft SQL database. Or maybe mttq can be of use?

Try papertrails! [image] Tradfri light triggered by Tradfri app, without flow Questions & Help That’s odd. I can only think of a loose wire connector, or maybe even a broken wire. Probably the lights turn on if you remove the power for a moment? And do you ha…

I use Papertrails. So what I would like to achieve is that if a light is switched on, a line is added to the Papertrails log stating “(date)(time) [device x] switched on”.

You can’t. You need a flow for that. A flow per device. Like I said, there are some apps that can help you without having to create a flow for each device, but they log to dabases, not to papertrail.

[image] DGalama: if a light is switched on, a line is added to the Papertrails log stating “(date)(time) [device x] switched on”. This is not a text log file, (for us normal users that is), but maybe this is somewhat usable? It’s build in since some time. [Screenshot_20211016-174527_Homey] …

I am aware of this functionality, but what I am looking for is to consolidate exactly this info for all devices in one logfile.

Amazing that this is not a standard functionality. So which apps are you suggesting?

[image] DGalama: I am aware of this functionality, but what I am looking for is to consolidate exactly this info for all devices in one logfile. I get that, the “funny” thing is, the on/off data presented is stored in some kind of log file. So if anyone knows how to retreive that with Homeys…

I decided to create two flows for every device: one to log turning and one to log turning off the device. A bit cumbersome, but by using the web version of the Homey app it took a reasonable amount of time. I still find it remarkable that information that is available in the system cannot not be co…

[image] DGalama: I still find it remarkable that information that is available in the system cannot not be consolidated in a file and/or exported. Homey is a black box, which is intentional. Athom doesn’t want users to have too much control over it.

One flow to log all device status changes?

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Peter_Kawa October 16, 2021, 10:50am 3

Try papertrails!

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One flow to log all device status changes?

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