Hello - I saw some older posts about this, but none as of recent. According to the Homey tutorials what I’m attempting is native functionality, but when I introduce a variable into my flow, the trigger does not work. Here is my flow example showing the variables I’m using. The trigger with the st…

Hello and welcome, Dexter, [Screenshot_20240509-164546_Chrome] In most triggercards, you can’t use a variable as value, but as you’ve noticed, there’s no warning and the card can be saved. I prefer to use a Chronograph timer: You can use a numeric variable as timer value It survives a power ou…

Thank you, Peter. That was my first approach and while it was more complex it worked fine until I tried to add variables to the timers :laughing: Despite being an integer, I would receive a “time is not valid” error, or the likes of. Variables are appealing to avoid updating every instance of a ti…

You’re welcome, Dexter. For me, the ‘zone is inactive for x minutes’ card is unreliable, I was too many times left in the dark, literally :crazy_face:. Other users reported it works fine. The ‘zone is inactive’ card works fine, and combined with a Chronograph timer it works flawless. [image] D…

Thanks again, I sent Athom a ticket, as suggested.

[image] DJG3: Despite being an integer, I would receive a “time is not valid” error, or the likes of. There’s more what goes unnoticed, unless you add an error tag in a log card (the Simple Log app is very nice) Like when the timeline or push notifications gets flooded by flows, it gets rate…

[image] Peter_Kawa: the Simple Log app is very nice This will certainly help keep track of and troubleshoot flows. Thanks!

Especially with new flows, or complex flows, it’s much easier to troubleshoot. F.e. actioncards are ‘fire and forget’; even when zigbee and zwave devices normally report their status back, the flow does not check that acknowledgement, and just says “I turned on device X”. Now, the log action card …

@Peter_Kawa Great comments. Perhaps we should do a topic on it for the benefit of all [image] Peter_Kawa: For me, the ‘zone is inactive for x minutes’ card is unreliable, I was too many times left in the dark, literally :crazy_face:. Other users reported it works fine It’s not the first tim…

[image] Rrrr: With 20+ motion sensors I’ve been using it for years without problems and it’s so much easier I have also been left in the dark, after the sensors have “said” "zone inactive"and i do enter the room again. Solved it by adding “Zone active” card after the “zone inactive in xxminu…

Zone inactive for x minutes doesn't work with variable... How to troubleshoot

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Rrrr May 10, 2024, 1:59pm 11

Nice idea, I have a question about that, but to not hijack this thread I created a dedicated one.

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