Restore a flow from backup possible

Questions & Help
1

I accidentally deleted a large part of my flows in an advanced flow tab. Is it possible to restore it (the partially deleted advanced flow tab)

I do have the paid backup, but understand these are full system backups. Can we chose what parts to back up of find specific copies of old flows?

2

No, that is not possible.
With the paid backup from Homey, you restore all of your flows, devices, etc.

3

Any way to see a previous version of you flows?

4

Nope.

5

Even if you only want to restore your flows from a backup, what’s the issue with restoring a full backup? Just curious.
At max you lose a days work, if you happened to be busy with it this day.

I know of two disadvantages of a full restore:
-the Insights are missing a days data (or longer, depends from which date the backup is you’d like to restore).
-the CLI / community store apps don’t get restored, you’ll have to install them yourself.
However, all of their settings and devices are restored.

6

Problem was I did not remember what flows I made and which I deleted accidentally. Luckily I had the web version open on a different pc. Disabled wifi first and then was able to screenshot.

Succes!

Met vriendelijk groet / with kind regards
Patrick van Deursen

7

I just did the same thing (deleted the wrong flow). But purely by coincidence, I had a safety net.

TIP: If you are doing major changes to Flows, open Homey Flows on a separate browser tab.

When you delete a flow on one browser tab, that flow remains on the second browser tab until it is refreshed.

Unfortunately, you cannot copy paste objects from one tab to another, but at least you can view the deleted flow.

8

Based on my personal experience, that can work out differently than expected. Sometimes the browser tab refreshes itself, or Homey initiates a refresh, and then you lose unsaved changes.

Some other suggestions for your consideration:

9

You can install this app to keep a number of previous flow versions, and to recover deleted flows:

10

Thanks! I was not aware of this app. Will definitely install this as I am somewhere over 100 flows now.