# Switching is very slow

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/switching-is-very-slow/128952>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [January 27, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/switching-is-very-slow/128952 "2025-01-27T07:41:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/switching-is-very-slow/128952/3 "2025-01-27T12:27:04Z")

</div>

Homey cannot control over X devices at once.

> [@Are ”delay” needed when switching on/off multiple Lights in a Flow?](https://community.homey.app/t/are-delay-needed-when-switching-on-off-multiple-lights-in-a-flow/86997/4):
>
> I hope they fixed that issue once and for all, but I really don’t know. Instead you can create and use a group device for switching multiple lights. You can use Device Capabilities or \< group \> app for this. They switch the lights in a group device in sequence automatically, which means ‘not all at once’. In advanced flow, you can ‘daisy-chain’ the lights, then they’re switched on/off in sequence. This is almost not much more work, than adding them in parallels [Screenshot from 2023-08-…

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/switching-is-very-slow/128952)._
