Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for a physical remote control that can be used with HomeAssistant? I’m hoping to find a multi-button zigbee or wifi device that HA can recognize and allow me to configure buttons to HA automations.
I’m already using a couple single button devices that can be configured to perform different actions on single press, double press, and long press, but would love a single device with multiple buttons for some locations.
The Aqara Cube looks interesting—it uses gestures instead of buttons.
I’ve had the opposite experience with the cube, but I use Zigbee2MQTT so I’m maybe that made the difference.
It’s a fantastic concept and I think everyone should buy one just because it’s so cool and so fucking useless at the same time.
So you have turn like a knob function, then changing sides, a knock knock, a slide and a drop sensor.
I programmed the drop sensor to toggle my room lights then showed a bunch of 40+ year old kids, who had great fun for a full 5 minutes playing epileptic catch.
The problem is that it has all these functions, but you only know what they are because you spent the time programming them. So it’s fucking useless to anyone else, and by the time you’ve set the thing down you’ve forgotten what you set it to do yourself.
I’ve had the turn like a knob set to brighten and dim my lights, then decided it should control the volume on the speaker when it’s playing music too, which lead to a little project in node red. But nobody else in the house even knows that’s what it does.
I should stop this wall of text, get one, it’s useless!
I actually bought that one. I don’t recommend. Buggy as all get out and most of the functionality requires their proprietary hub. Cool concept though, shame it didn’t work very well.