Virtual flow button in Homey app

Jeroenvano

I would like to have a virtual button/card in the app to execute flows. I've tried to play around with Better logic BitFlip buttons but these do not seem to trigger/execute flows when they are flipped. Any suggestions? 

DieterKoblenz

They can trigger flows. Use the Better Logic Trigger Card "A variable has changed" to trigger flows when you switch it.

Jeroenvano

DieterKoblenz said:

They can trigger flows. Use the Better Logic Trigger Card "A variable has changed" to trigger flows when you switch it.

That's what I tried, these do not trigger when you switch it.

Phuturist

Jeroenvano said:

DieterKoblenz said:

They can trigger flows. Use the Better Logic Trigger Card "A variable has changed" to trigger flows when you switch it.

That's what I tried, these do not trigger when you switch it.

There seems to be a bug in BetterLogic since a couple of Homey firmware versions back causing flows with the bitflip trigger not the run. You can work around this by using the BetterLogic card "a variable has changed"and selecting the bitflip boolean. You can check in the "and" column if it's switched on (true) or switched of (false).

Jeroenvano

Phuturist said:

Jeroenvano said:

DieterKoblenz said:

They can trigger flows. Use the Better Logic Trigger Card "A variable has changed" to trigger flows when you switch it.

That's what I tried, these do not trigger when you switch it.

There seems to be a bug in BetterLogic since a couple of Homey firmware versions back causing flows with the bitflip trigger not the run. You can work around this by using the BetterLogic card "a variable has changed"and selecting the bitflip boolean. You can check in the "and" column if it's switched on (true) or switched of (false).

This workaround works - thanks guys!

Priknr1

So will there be an actual app "Virtual"? In which you can make buttons, and maybe numbers and stuff?

In Homeseer I create a virtual device to store a certain time, luminance or state. 
I have seen multiple simular questions on here. But can anyone tell if there will actuall be virtual devices, or only work arounds?

RobinVanKekem

BetterLogic app does have one virtual device which is on/off.
Don't know if this helps?

tunf

can someone post a screen shot, i'm not able to get this to work. Can this workaround also be used to start/ stop something using an nfc card? So first times it is used turn on lamp, second time turn off/ dimm and if possible third time lamps to green.

Joolee

tunf said:

can someone post a screen shot, i'm not able to get this to work. Can this workaround also be used to start/ stop something using an nfc card? So first times it is used turn on lamp, second time turn off/ dimm and if possible third time lamps to green.

You can use BetterLogic for that but not (specifically) with the bitflip device.

Flow 1: On NFC - No condition - Increment variable 'NFC scanned' by 1
Flow 2: On var change 'NFC Scanned' - And variable 'Lamp state' is exactly 0 - Turn on lamp, Set variable 'lamp state' to 1
Flow 3: On var change 'NFC Scanned' - And variable 'Lamp state' is exactly 1 - Turn lamp green, Set variable 'lamp state' to 2
Flow 4: On var change 'NFC Scanned' - And variable 'Lamp state' is exactly 2 - Turn off lamp, Set variable 'lamp state' to 0

Advanced:
You can modify this to use a boolean value for 'NFC scanned', flip this value in flow 1. Now you can use a virtual bitflip device OR the scanning of an NFC tag to change your lamp status

Uranday

Im going to build a virtual button in Better Logic.

This will be implemented as a special variable 'Trigger'

With that trigger you can make a device that is a button and if the button is pushed, the trigger is triggered and thus the flow will run. Hope this helps!

Moek

Uranday said:

Im going to build a virtual button in Better Logic.

This will be implemented as a special variable 'Trigger'

With that trigger you can make a device that is a button and if the button is pushed, the trigger is triggered and thus the flow will run. Hope this helps!

This is so cool!
I've been asking Emile for this since the early firstbackers testing periode and he kept suggesting to use the kaku workaround.
But it never felt right triggering a flow with a card that showed a lamp as an icon while sometimes the flow didn't even contain any lamps...

So thanks very much, this will up the WAF by a 1000%!

keverjeroen

Uranday said:

Im going to build a virtual button in Better Logic.

This will be implemented as a special variable 'Trigger'

With that trigger you can make a device that is a button and if the button is pushed, the trigger is triggered and thus the flow will run. Hope this helps!

That would be great! At the moment I need a BL-Bitflipswitch, that flips a boolean variable, that starts a flow to set a string variable.. 

Am I right that with the virtual button, I don't need the boolean?

Julian

Uranday said:

Im going to build a virtual button in Better Logic.

This will be implemented as a special variable 'Trigger'

With that trigger you can make a device that is a button and if the button is pushed, the trigger is triggered and thus the flow will run. Hope this helps!

Yeah, that would be great! Would it be anyway possible to be able to choose from a variety of (basic) icons when creating the virtual button?

Menno

+1 for different icons. Nice for in the HomeyDash dashboard

Uranday

Uranday said:

Im going to build a virtual button in Better Logic.

This will be implemented as a special variable 'Trigger'

With that trigger you can make a device that is a button and if the button is pushed, the trigger is triggered and thus the flow will run. Hope this helps!

Pushed a new version to git with the trigger. Now its waiting for validation in the appstore.

Rrrr

Take a look at https://apps.athom.com/app/com.arjankranenburg.virtual