I have one request though to make Homey advanced Flows easier to use: Could you make the lines connecting the flows gradient colour-changing? Since many flow-buttons have coloured icons, it would be great if the lines would be colour changing to make them more easily identifiable. To give an example, ‘Time’ icon is red, ‘Kasa’ icon is green. It would be great if the line would change colour (gradient) from green on the ‘Time’ side to red on the ‘Kasa’ side so it’s easy to see what starts and ends where in case of many lines in one flow.
Anyway, thanks for your time, I’m going back to making flows again
When I see screenshots from some fellow Homey users I understand why you are making this suggestion. Some have lines running from the top right corner to the bottom left while crossing other lines and large parts hidden behind cards. Complete spaghetti.
When I build a flow I (re-)arrange the cards while overthinking the working of the flow. My lines are short, running from left to right, as horizontally as possible, never behind cards and cross other lines as little as possible. So I use a big canvas.
Sometimes that means that the flow has certain THEN-cards more then once.
I see what you do there. I try to keep it like this too, as short as possible with as little overlap as possible, but things can still get a bit spaghetti. A simple example of this is the lighting in my living room combined with my curtains: what goes where and how. Of course, it can be fixed by adding multiple additional buttons doing the same thing, but then the programmer in me starts to feel really dirty….multiple functions for the same action is just not ok. and my ocd…well…things have to be aligned.
but, tbh, even if it looks a bit spaghetti sometimes, i am really loving the ease at which Homey lets me make very tricky flows, something which I gave up on with Home Assistant as it was way too complicated.
Whenever I have 2 cards going to multiple cards I like to connect the ‘target’ cards with an ANY and connect the other cards to that ANY. It really makes it a lot more readable (and understandable).
Same when going from the right side of the canvas and jump to the left : 2 ANY’s, some vertical space and it looks a lot better…
