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foss physical button recommendations (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Dust0741@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Hi. I'm new to HA, and am looking for physical button recommendations. I got tasmota smart plugs, and those just needed HA's mqtt add-on and tasmota integration. They work like a charm. Now I want to get a physical button (wired or battery) that I can use to toggle the smart switches. I also would like to do this in the most private way possible. I noticed that the smart plugs only connect to npt.org, which is perfect. Is there a similar option for buttons? I dont have ZigBee or Zwave products or anything, but that is an option.

I found this button and it uses ZigBee. Is this the best option.

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[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you like it a little bit more fancy: There's a guy in Slovenia who designed HomeButtons and also sells them if you don't want to print and build them yourself (links are on the docs page). They speak via WiFi to a MQTT server and are easily integrated into Home Assistant. You can remotely change the labels if you want to and the battery life is very good.

[–] paf@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice, looks really interesting but can we build it ourselves? I can't find documentation nor printing files on the website and github

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can. The STL files for the case and the PCB layout are available on GitHub: https://github.com/nplan/HomeButtons There even is a section on soldering and building it yourself on the documentation.

[–] paf@jlai.lu 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks