Can someone help me out here - I feel there is an easy way to do this but I can’t see it
I want a flow which turns on a device (my underfloor heating) for 1 hours, then off for 2 hours - I’ve worked out that this is the most energy efficient way to power it by using insights
But, I can’t see an easy way to do this in a flow - I tried the below, but you can only have 3 OR statements
There doesnt seem to be a logic tag associated with time, so I can’t do a calculation against it, (and there doesnt even seem to be a time is exactly x for that matter either)
This flow will definitely not work, as it cannot be simultaneously between 23:55 - 00:05, 02:55 - 03:05 and so on. Maybe you just want to show what times you need with this flow, I don’t know.
Why are there so many users who always want to realize everything in just one flow? Why don’t create multiple flows?
For example, for my “You have mail” automation, I created 15 flows. This is not a problem for Homey.
And if the flows are well structured and named, then it’s also no problem for the user to keep track of them.
For your use case you need 3 flows to turn on the heater, and 3 flows to turn off the heater. So that’s not many flows.
I am not familiar with Homey Script, but it should be possible to realize it with one flow, maximum 2 flows.
Yeah I know it won’t work. I wanted each of those in OR (as stated), but it maxes out at 3 OR
It should be very simple to do in one flow - the three OR is arbitrary restriction
There is no way to do it with three flows without some shared logic unless I’m mistaken… And as stated, there appears to be no way to get logic from the time variable
I could do every 3 hours, but then how does the off flow know that it’s not one of the on times?
That’s what I thought too (although there might be an issue with an OFF not being executed if Homey reboots between the start of the flow and the end of the delay).
Change the flow to “Every 3 minutes” and a delay of 1 minute and use a lamp to switch on and off (instead of the underfloor heating). Then you can check relatively quickly whether the flow works or not.
That could also be boiled down to a single flow I think by adding an else clause. And to shrink it further, maybe skip the variable and use the state of the pump in the “And…” statement.
