Hi Community, I hope you can help me with my problem :slight_smile: First of all, to the situation I need to find a solution for: I need some kind of button/switch to switch two things in openHAB. When I first installed openHAB2 and saw, that it is possible to use Dash buttons, I was really happ…

[image] JustTotallyMe: Bed_Trigger” and “Morning_Mode_Ready” is? These are simple switch items I created in text files super simple and are not needed too use the dimmer switches they are only a part of my setup :slight_smile: on my setup heres what they do Bed trigger is a switch I use too…

[image] JustTotallyMe: That is why I am searching for any kind of button to use with openHAB. I remember seeing a Z-Wave button Fibaro appears to have a product called “The Button”

Hi @JustTotallyMe welcome too the community hopefully you can get some decent answers on your first post :wink: I use the Philips hue dimmer switch for most of my buttons in OH I also started with amazon dash buttons but have since removed them all from my system as hue outperformed them and since …

I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BKWG9XS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It’s Z-Wave and $15.

[image] cbaxter: I use this: The OP may not be in US, Canada or Mexico, but in a different Z-Wave region.

There are a number of button devices that work with BT, Zigbee or Zwave. Fibaro even calls their’s “The Button”. Just search your shopping site of choice for “Zigbee button” and “Zwave button” (two separate searches) and you should find a number of options. The cheapest one I saw was a Zigbee at $15…

Well thanks for all the ideas so far. @Sharpy I was not aware, that the hue dimmer is so awesome. I do have some of them already for my “normal” hue system but since they are pretty cheap atm I might get a few and use these. So thanks for the idea. Also regarding zwave and zigbee I will have a lo…

[image] JustTotallyMe: Also one thing about zwave and zigbee: Am I correct, that I need a usb-adapter for both of these things? (running OH on windows btw) Zigbee should be compatible with your Hue hub. But otherwise, yes, you would need a USB dongle.

if you need any help with that give me a shout i may be able too help you get it working i think its quite easy now they may just appear in paperUI when i added them i had too use a workaround as they wernt supported i think i had too use the HTTP binding here is the rule i use for my bedroom switc…

@rlkoshak ok nice, thanks for your help. @Sharpy well thx for the code and the offer :slight_smile: The code does not seem to complicated so I should be able to get done what I have in mind :slight_smile: And again to all of you, thanks for the quick help! Edit: oh and @Sharpy because you just m…

[image] Sharpy: Bed_Trigger.state == ON && Morning_Mode_Ready.state could you maybe tell me, what “Bed_Trigger” and “Morning_Mode_Ready” is? Are these items or things? Or do you know how longs variables are being kept? Like if I store a value to a var inside a rule, will the value of the st…

[SOLVED] Smart button like Amazon Dash Button

Hardware Home Automation

miba (Michael) January 12, 2020, 12:05pm 15

Thanks a million, @Sharpy, for your approach! As a workaround, it helped me to fix a serious issue that prevented me from using my Hue dimmers as intended: