I have lately been running into this issue. With lights in particular; I have a perfectly working flow and for some reason (life happens) and I need to disable or interrupt the flow because I just need that light to be on all night on that particular instance. I was thinking about creating a flow within the HUE module that disables and enables the flow based on some sequence of on/off within a specified time. I just wanted to know how you and others deal with these issues and what are “best practices”. Thanks!
If you want to control it from within the Homey app then you could setup a virtual button to either disable/enable the Flow or use as a condition in the Flows.
I have created a virtual button for “Guest staying” that I check within the Flows to disable opening the study / guest bedroom blind at sunrise.
Or, if you don’t need the UI of a virtual button, just use a boolean variable and set it through the Homey app.
Andy
Thank you very much to both of you…I am afraid I have never created a virtual button before, could you be so kind to point me in the right direction to the resources? I will appreciate it very much
But a virtual Button is much easyer to flip than an variable.
Button : Open App, click ‘devices’ (if not a fav), then click button On/Off
Variable: Open App, click ‘More…’, click ‘variable’, select variable, change variable, save variable
You can either enable Virtual Devices in the Experiments section of the app settings or use one of the store apps such as Virtual Devices. You then add a virtual button as you would any other device. The Virtual button just triggers a Flow via a normal device trigger card that you can use to switch other devices on / off or set a variable. You can also check the state of the Virtual switch with an And card.