# Starting a homey flow from a Node Red Dashboard **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Created:** [October 27, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-a-homey-flow-from-a-node-red-dashboard/36600 "2020-10-27T16:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mikellio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mikellio/32/14242_2.png) [@Mikellio](https://community.homey.app/u/Mikellio)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-a-homey-flow-from-a-node-red-dashboard/36600/1 "2020-10-27T16:15:05Z")
Hi all, Hopefully I’m posting this in the correct group and somebody is able to help me with the following; I’m building a dashboard with Node Red and I was wondering if it would be possible to execute a homey flow through a button. Maybe some basic function, but I’m new at this 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Shakesbeard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/shakesbeard/32/15112_2.png) [@Shakesbeard](https://community.homey.app/u/Shakesbeard)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-a-homey-flow-from-a-node-red-dashboard/36600/2 "2020-10-27T17:28:35Z")
Hi @Mikellio, as far as I am aware it is not possible to start a flow directly. But you could ask the Devs of the MQTT apps. However, if you have a virtual device (button) which activates that flow you could possibly trigger this button via MQTT. ---
**Author:** ![VanGilles](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/vangilles/32/11478_2.png) [@VanGilles](https://community.homey.app/u/VanGilles)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-a-homey-flow-from-a-node-red-dashboard/36600/3 "2020-10-28T20:32:17Z")
You can use the app mqtt client. This will give a flow start card with the option to start the flow when a certain payload or topic is received.