# Starting flows from Bixby Routines

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/starting-flows-from-bixby-routines/94647>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Tags:** flow, homey-pro\
**Created:** [November 14, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-flows-from-bixby-routines/94647 "2023-11-14T21:02:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rik\_Elsenaar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rik_elsenaar/32/72066_2.png) [@Rik\_Elsenaar](https://community.homey.app/u/Rik_Elsenaar)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-flows-from-bixby-routines/94647/1 "2023-11-14T21:02:29Z")

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Hello there 👋

I am currently busy with creating an automation to set me and my girlfriend to sleep in homey.  
This is something I want to do automatically, With the use of the status of our phones. I have a iPhone and in this case they are better 😅, my girlfriend has an Samsung phone. on my phone I already succeeded using Apple Commands. Now I want to do the same thing with her phone.

But my problem is, I can only start apps with Bixby Routines, and not flows. do you guys know how I can fix this?

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**Author:** ![Dietrich\_Kassner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dietrich_kassner/32/176924_2.png) [@Dietrich\_Kassner](https://community.homey.app/u/Dietrich_Kassner)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-flows-from-bixby-routines/94647/2 "2023-11-14T21:14:10Z")

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I do it by switching our phones into flight mode or switch off Wifi and use the Smart presents app. Because during night I don’t have to be connected to the Wifi.

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**Author:** ![Rik\_Elsenaar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rik_elsenaar/32/72066_2.png) [@Rik\_Elsenaar](https://community.homey.app/u/Rik_Elsenaar)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/starting-flows-from-bixby-routines/94647/3 "2023-11-14T21:21:31Z")

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That’s an idea, but I already am using the smart pretend app for the home/away function because that didn’t work anymore on the phone of my girlfriend after an update…