6 things you must know about Homey Pro advanced flows

Homey Pro Advanced Flows make home complex home automations easier than ever before. Let's take a closer look this revolutionary rule building engine and how it will help you maintain your sanity as you automate your smart home.

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[TheRiehlThing]

I was struggling with getting Home Assistant to work consistently with automations. So many basic ones just didn't seem to want to work right. Homey Pro has been a breath of fresh air. Advanced flows is so fun to tweak around, figuring out fun things. Just last night, I realized having a theme song play every time I entered my room if the lights were off, would get annoying. So now I have it do that only the first time I've entered, then disable that flow. The flow gets reenabled once I leave the house. Could do a combination of basic flows for the basic functions, like turning main lights on and off, but then advanced flows that will disable or enable the flows. Just fun to figure the things out. Where Home Assistant, I would have to watch video after video and trial and error. Having the Imperial March entrance music is fun, and then if I'm away from home, and someone enters, with Drowning Pool Let The Bodies Hit The Floor blast at full volume as a deterrent is also fun. I do notice that there is a lag on some things with Homey Pro compared to Home Assistant. If I enter an area with motion sensor for lights, there's about a one second delay before the light turns on. Same for the door sensor to turn on a closet light. Beyond that, I've been happy with Homey Pro. Just hoping more and more apps and functionality comes.

[latinfm]

Purely based on your Homey Pro content, I am now officially subscribed 👍🏼 keep them coming

[VideoNOLA]

Breath of fresh air coming from hubitat!

[Appmyhome]

Great summary of flows. Plus you answered some questions I had like can you have more than one flow per advanced flow. That will really simplify things. One thing I haven’t figured out is if there is a way to increment or decrement a variable.

[daphnetilling]

Was there not a flow type thing in or you could add to home assistant? I really like the idea of the flow thing as it looks simple to work with

[fredherbert]

Thanks for the video. I’m sort of regretting the impulsive c8 purchase after seeing this, but if I recall in your original video correctly, you said HP still needs to add further devices that are common in the US market, so maybe I should just relax. Would love to see more on the HP doing things easier that are difficult on Hubitat and HA.

[Wonderdude]

This is was Node-red should have been. Wish we had this for Home Assistant

[JasonReuter]

Reminds me of stringify I miss that app

[MrMikerobichaud]

So basically Homey blatantly knocked off node-red.

[stephennutt]

That's just Node Red light. They even use "flow" terminology. Only plus is that it runs on Homey Pro instead of on Raspberry Pi like i do with Hubitat. The cost of 2 Hubitats plus Raspberry Pi is less than Homey Pro and Node Red works across a lot more platforms.

[SystemsPlanet]

Automation creates a lifetime of annoying maintenance. Pass.