Comment on I'm looking for large, battery powered customizable Bluetooth buttons

Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I second Zigbee.

  • There’s plenty of devices available.
  • Battery life is amazing.
  • zigbee2mqtt is an easy way to bring those messages into your regular IP network; they have a huge list of supported devices.
  • Once translated to MQTT, you can hook any automation onto it you want: a python script, home assistant, or my recommendation in this case, NodeRED. NodeRED has a module for zigbee2mqtt that is very well integrated to just know all devices registered on your zigbee network and stringing flows together is actually fun once you get the hang of it. Plus, there is no upper bound to flow complexity.
  • Gateway device can be a sonoff zigbee USB coordinator and the whole thing can comfortably run on a rpi3.

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  • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Read your reply now, and not sure about the requirements you have: must not leave the local devices or must not use the WiFi?

    If it’s the latter, a 4g USB modem with a cheap iot data plan easily frees you of that.

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• nmill11b@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This would be great, I’m okay with hubitat and smartthings (i havent used completely off of wifi, but i have a few hubs laying around), but I have a few limitations I’m not sure how to get around… this is purely for personal convenience and IT surely would not sign off on anything network connected due to hippa.

  If there was a way to have a zigbee or wave button system that was independent of a wifi network that would at least send a message to my phone, that would be ideal. I’m not sure how to do that.

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  • nmill11b@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Last edit: looks like may be a way to do this in hubitat. I’m going to put some thought into this. Thanks!!

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