# Power & time on Homey Bridge

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338>\
**Category:** Flows\
**Tags:** flow\
**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338 "2025-01-20T08:00:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Oystein\_Tveteras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/oystein_tveteras/32/135256_2.png) [@Oystein\_Tveteras](https://community.homey.app/u/Oystein_Tveteras)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338/1 "2025-01-20T08:00:15Z")

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Hi all,

I’m a bridge user and struggle finding a way to summarize power usage over a given time period. Here are two examples:

1. Smart plug connected to freezer: I want to be notified if the freezer is broken. The compressor is on/off all the time, so I need something like “No power drawn in 3 hours”.

2. EV charger load balancing: I want to stay below 10 kW total house consumption for each hour in order to avoid high power tariffs. I have instant power data from Tibber pulse AMS reader and need something like “If average power exceeds 10Kw for 5 minutes”, to trigger reduced charging speed.

It seems people with Pro’s use the “chronograph” function for these things. Is there a way to solve it on Bridge?

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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:** [January 20, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338/2 "2025-01-20T09:13:32Z")

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No. These are “advanced” use cases, Homey cloud is targeted at straight forward setups / non-tech users (as I understood from the marketing and Athom forum posts).

I also would never use these quite important checks with a cloud-only device, but that’s a personal opinion.

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**Author:** ![Oystein\_Tveteras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/oystein_tveteras/32/135256_2.png) [@Oystein\_Tveteras](https://community.homey.app/u/Oystein_Tveteras)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338/3 "2025-01-20T21:36:24Z")

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Thanks for the input. As feared I’m afraid.

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**Author:** ![Wim\_Post](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wim_post/32/56793_2.png) [@Wim\_Post](https://community.homey.app/u/Wim_Post)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338/4 "2025-01-21T18:14:04Z")

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This might work:

Create number-variable ‘compressor freezer not running’

WHEN:  
Every 1 minute  
AND:  
powerconsumption is 0  
THEN:  
calculate ‘compressor freezer not running’ is {{‘compressor freezer not running’ + 1}}

WHEN:  
Power consumption freezer changed  
AND:  
Power consumption is more then 50 watt  
THEN:  
Set ‘compressor freezer not running’ to 0

WHEN:  
‘compressor freezer not running’ has changed  
AND  
‘compressor freezer not running’ is more than 180  
THEN  
Send notifications: “check freezer”

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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:** [January 21, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/power-time-on-homey-bridge/128338/5 "2025-01-21T20:25:04Z")

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An “every 1 minute” card isn’t available @ Homey cloud.  
But what’s possible is, using two similar flows, which start one another after 1 minute.

> [@Every x minutes then](https://community.homey.app/t/every-x-minutes-then/127151/10):
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> You can create 2 similar flows, which start one another after 3 minutes