I wish to create a flow that when triggered it brings up a dialog box where I can enter a number that is then assigned to a variable which is used in the flow. Is this possible? In my case I want to make a play timer for my kid that when done triggers a sound on her Sonos speaker. The input should t…

This is not an option in Homey itself. The only option from Homey self to input something to / from a flow is the Push Notification as Condition but that only returns yes/no. [Screenshot_20240922_131520_Homey] As workaround you could open a flow that has a start with Number Tag. If you test thi…

For me it would be perfect like when you are testing a flow. So when I trigger a flow manually I would like a dialogbox to turn up and ask for how many minutes. I would fill that in and after that the rest of the flow or another flow with that variable is triggered.

Start a flow and bring up input dialog box

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Dijker September 22, 2024, 12:28pm 5

As workaround with 3rd party apps seel the same question with a solution using Tasker here: Input Time from User prompt

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Start a flow and bring up input dialog box

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