# Tag Unavailable for a split second

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/tag-unavailable-for-a-split-second/160866>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tag-unavailable-for-a-split-second/160866 "2026-10-14T16:05:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hiep\_Hoang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/hiep_hoang/32/174834_2.png) [@Hiep\_Hoang](https://community.homey.app/u/Hiep_Hoang)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tag-unavailable-for-a-split-second/160866/1 "2026-10-14T16:05:16Z")

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After wasting many days debugging, I finally found the reasons I get wrong info to display: tag unavailable in flow

This is how the flow looks normally

 ![{1EE63A7D-EEBC-4635-8981-2E6EF2B9AA89}](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/4/74835ebccf45039fc57899f224766d144ca79cf5.png)

When I run the flow, some of the tags suddenly (and randomly) become unavailable for a split second, precisely when the flow updates them. As a result, I don’t get the updated information from the flow run because I’m printing the contents of those tags.

 ![{41FBF2F3-E638-487A-A9CE-55DEA65F80A6}](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/2/b2ae12298ddb99fae71176721eba0c7b2fcf9d54.png)

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

It happens quite often (more than 70% of the time), but not always. I’ve rebooted the system several times, but the problem persists. I have put in delays/await, still not help.

It happens quite often (\>70%), but now always. I have rebooted the system several times.

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**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tag-unavailable-for-a-split-second/160866/2 "2026-10-14T16:54:50Z")

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Where’s the tag coming from?

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**Author:** ![Hiep\_Hoang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/hiep_hoang/32/174834_2.png) [@Hiep\_Hoang](https://community.homey.app/u/Hiep_Hoang)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tag-unavailable-for-a-split-second/160866/3 "2026-10-14T19:08:21Z")

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The tags are from my own HomeyScript. Here is an example how they are generated.

I have several flows calling the same script so I write the results on different tags depending on which flow is calling. In this example, each flow supplies different StopNr and RowNumber

```auto
        const tagName1 = `${StopNr} Row ${RowNumber} Left`;

        const tagName2 = `${StopNr} Row ${RowNumber} Right`;

        await tag(tagName1, null);

        await tag(tagName2, null);

        await tag(tagName1, line);

        await tag(tagName2, `${WholeMin} Min`);

```