# Timeline RATE-LIMIT without error notification **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Tags:** flow, advancedflow, messaging\ **Created:** [October 7, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046 "2022-10-07T16:36:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/1 "2022-10-07T16:36:29Z")
Hi all, Fact: The timeline can get rate-limited when sending too many notifications from flows, within a certain time frame. 1. Why isn’t an error message sent or present somewhere? Say a push message, or a timeline message (while only the flow category seems to be rate-limited). Now I only discover it when I look at the timeline to discover the last notification is from hours ago. 2. Probably a bug: While I test AdvancedFlow, it seems it triggers a rate-limit pretty fast. This happens with Aflows with just one timeline notification card. It’s not I test run every 1s for 60times. Just a few test runs seems to trigger the rate-limit. ---
**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 7, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/2 "2022-10-07T17:44:13Z")
> [@Peter\_Kawa](#): > > Why isn’t an error message sent or present somewhere? Why are you asking the community? 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/3 "2022-10-07T18:39:35Z")
Hey Peter, One thing: The Flow rate limit is NOT 60 executions a minute (afaik), but 60 runs at the same time (or at least without the others completing). F.i. this flow: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/f/8f39a38f18a21976d69fa7228e87592353f22a6c.png) This will run the same flow 70 times, well within a minute (i just found a bug that makes it run twice as many times, whoeps). It was a bit tricky to build it, because the need to wait for the previous execution to run. But it does work, and you can go through JSON Arrays/Collection with hundres of elements/objects in it, and loop through it using the same flow: No problem to execute this flow about 150 times a minute what i did during testing. because i also thought it was 60 runs a minute, but, i have never hit that mark **as long as i put all executions after each the previous has completly finished.** ```auto [TEF:FLOWS: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] ``` ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/4 "2022-10-07T19:48:57Z")
Sorry Arie, it’s about the timeline getting rate limited ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/5 "2022-10-07T20:03:41Z")
> [@robertklep](#): > > Why are you asking the community? 😜 Hehe, well, maybe someone can fix it, and by accident works for Athom 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/6 "2022-10-07T20:24:33Z")
Yeah, i know, i just wanted to let you know the flow limit is not (60 a minute), what many people seem to think. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 7, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-rate-limit-without-error-notification/70046/7 "2022-10-07T20:37:04Z")
Ah okay, I knew 😉 > [@\[Timeline\] Flow disabled because it runs 60 times](https://community.homey.app/t/timeline-flow-disabled-because-it-runs-60-times/66238/25): > > It means the code thats runs the Flow did not exit properly. The code looks something like this: count++; try { const result = await this.run(args); return result; } catch (error) { throw error; } finally { // This block always executes. count--; } This can be triggered easily if you have a Flow that triggers every second that starts a delay for 120 seconds for example. On the 61th time the previous executions are not done yet so to prevent this ‘leak’ going on forever we disable the…