5 SMART BUTTONS for Home Assistant (How I Use Them)

In todays video we are having a quick look at 5 different smart buttons that I make use of in my Smart Home using Home Assistant. I give a bit of information on each button and also share my use for them!

We are having a look at buttons from Amazon, Aqara, Sonoff, Philips Hue and Shelly.

Sonoff and Aqara use CR2450s! I said the wrong battery in the voiceover sorry!

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0:00​​​​ - Intro
0:23 - How I classify a Button
0:57​ - BUTTON 1 (Amazon Echo Button)
4:11 - BUTTON 2 (Aqara Wireless Mini Switch)
6:10 - BUTTON 3 (Sonoff Wireless Switch - SNZB-01)
9:54 - BUTTON 4 (Philips Hue Smart Button)
11:53 - BUTTON 5 (Shelly B1)
14:53 - Your Recommendations?
15:20 - Outro

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[toinefr]

What's good is that you show how the Sonoff button works. Up to this point I thought it was an touch sensor button! 👍🏻

[MartinTvTV]

The kettle automation is probably one of the most British things I have ever seen.

[brianpoling]

I would be very interested in the Shelly Discovery script setup video. You instruction videos have been very helpful as I learn Home Assistant.

[ProjectileGrommet]

CANNOT WAIT for the scene remote video

[Banjoba]

This video was great. Your the best channel for Home Assistant and associated devices. Good stuff.

[valentinene]

Thanks for the video. At home i'm using all kind of Ikea buttons - starting with the big, round one and ending with simple on/off. They've been working pretty well and very cheap also. I'm using also a Xiaomi button, the round one - pretty nice piece of hardware, very small, it's able to send 4 or 5 different events (single, double, triple, long pushes)

[DavidFrankland]

Regarding the Aqara button, the WXKG12LM has an accelerometer, so has an additional "shake" action.

[Phelton]

Good video... But in my opinion the best button is Ikea tradfre button..the best button that i have tried with home assistant. Little, zigbee and with many function (single press, duble Press, long press ecc.)

[zachariahm.kemper]

Ate there any buttons with pins so that they can be connected to other buttons, if there are any that can do that then be virtually pressed it could be used to turn on anything with an on button, my pc I keep backwards so its hard to reach the power and it be nice if I could just virtually press it

[rhosk]

Drinking Game! - with the drink word "Button!!" -- I don't think you'd finish the :)

Seriously, another great video, Mark! And, as the previous poster mentioned, I had no troubles with Shelly integration and the Button1.

[thanoswasright]

How do you add the Sonoff Wireless Switch - SNZB-01 in HA?

[makeitworktech]

Great video! The Aqaras are my favorite of these. Weird, I had no trouble using the Shelly Button1 with the Shelly integration.

[ehbarooo]

I would like to see a universal remote style smart button with like 10-15 button who can act as trigger

[larkbox]

personally i use the cheap(2-3usd) 433 mhz buttons that run off 2 or 3 x 20mm coin cells in conjunction with a 10 usd sonoff rf bridge flashed with tasmota.. battery life 2yrs+ with moderate daily use node red sits in the background responding to any and each button press i use.

[welshy]

Another great video Mark ! I have a few of the Ikea buttons, very cheap, starting at only £6. I have a smart bulb that's linked to my Webex status through home assistant that is outside my home office so the kids know when I'm on a video call (light is red). There is an ikea tradfri button outside the door so they can press it and that alerts me via another smart bulb inside the room, I can then reply from another tradfri button turning the outside light green if it's ok for them to come in !

[VWTesla]

I picked up some inexpensive FLIC buttons and I use them for some home automation. I currently have a separate computer (Mac Mini) that relays the button presses to my home assistant which does the actual work (e.g. toggling my bathroom lights or on long press activating a dimming routine). I do find the FLIC buttons to wear out a bit sooner and I might see about pairing to my home assistant directly; however the FLIC buttons are bluetooth and have limited range so while this is a cheap option it's not the best. The relay through flic app isn't too user friendly (the double quotes get recast and that often breaks my HA routines but maybe that's a mac-only thing that could be fixed) plus I have to use a bearer token with the REST API but it seems to work. Thanks for the video!

[frogeye]

Really useful video - you come up with some great content for us. Thank you for your efforts

[gedgicat]

Nice video, I've also had issues with Shelly integration monitoring (responding to) inputs, . Does the Shelly discovery plug in work on HA container?

[dixonbg]

Shelly integration should be adding "events" that you can use to trigger automation. Check in developer tools for these "events" where you can test them and see event id and device id. These should be used in your event trigger.

[bobvanmierlo]

You should try the Flic buttons. Small, long battery life and very capable. You do need a Flic hub though, or selfhost the hub SDK on a Raspberry Pi