# Ability to close apps overnight when the station is offline

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/ability-to-close-apps-overnight-when-the-station-is-offline/11556>\
**Category:** Product Suggestions\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [May 24, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/ability-to-close-apps-overnight-when-the-station-is-offline/11556 "2024-05-24T08:17:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/ability-to-close-apps-overnight-when-the-station-is-offline/11556/7 "2024-05-30T13:42:51Z")

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@jakerigos Control here is significantly restrained by the fact that there is no way to trigger Tulip logic when a player goes offline or comes online. If we could set triggers to fire “On Station Online” or “On Station Offline”, we could very easily mitigate this issue with trigger logic.

The best work around currently is to utilize 30 second timers to check for if it has been \> 10 hours of activity, but this is a pretty bad experience as operators who log in to the Tulip app will be able to use it normally for the first 30 seconds.

> [@Logic When an App is Re-Opened](https://community.tulip.co/t/logic-when-an-app-is-re-opened/11387):
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> Am I correct in understanding that there is no way to fire a trigger when a user re-opens an app on an offline station? Stations can be offline for days and when a user logs back in it will bring them exactly to where they were? None of these triggers will fire, correct? [image] If there is no way to do this, I can explain a bit more why it would be useful. Frequently applications utilize timer triggers to control events. EG after [period of time], force the user back to the homepage. However,…

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