Flic button integration success story

Hardware
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I didn’t need to create input booleans for the buttons, since they are just making a toggle API call.
Here is an example of the Flic config of an “Internet Request”.

Configured as a POST request.

URL;
http://192.168.1.5:8123/api/services/switch/toggle

Headers;
Key; Authorization
Value; Bearer eyJ0…[long-lived access token from HA]…qp5k

Content Type;
application/json

Body;
{“entity_id”:“switch.aeon_labs_zw096_smart_switch_6_dining_lamp_switch”}

I should mention these are a bit of a pain in the butt to set up since you have to use the Flic app UI through your phone. I’ve put in a feature request for them to have the Hub as a webserver for config!

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I have a few Flic Buttons here and I am using it with this https://github.com/pschmitt/home-assistant-addons flicd addon.
I need no Hub and no Phone, only the Bluetooth inside the Pi of my HassOS installation.

They are working fine in ca. 10m radius

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So this means no reliance on any Flic software?
This is good to know in case the Hub or App ever stopped working I’d have an alternative!

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Yes, this is correct! To pair it with the Pi you have to press it a few seconds and then you have it inside Home Assistant to use it in automations. That‘s all.

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Resurrecting an old thread but I’m looking to purchase several of these flic2 buttons. I run hassio in a VM and it’s in a basement a long way from where the buttons would be deployed anyway.

Can I use my esp32s dotted around the house for Bluetooth pairing and therefore HA integration?

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You need the flicd running on the device where you pair the buttons. I have a Pi Zero W for this in a central place in my house.
In Home Assistant I only have to add the IP of the Pi Zero W to let the buttons work.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: flic
    host: x.y.z.d
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Thank you so much for shering!
just made my sonoff switch to toggle on and off via HA with a press of my ‘flic 2’ button (no hub!)

just figured out that with an easy header change it can activate scenes and probably much more.

10X A LOT for this
i’ve been struggling with this for a while…

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this means that we can also do this to have multiple z-wave instances right? get a pi0 and attach a z-wave usb, and create the sensor?

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Hub SDK released. Maybe worth looking into?

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How did you get your buttons to pair with HA. I can’t seem to find anyone who’s been able to.

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Simply press them for more than seven seconds. That’s all!
I don’t know where I read this, but it was easy to find. :slight_smile:

Then you can go to the developer tools/events and start to listen to “flic_click”. When you press the button once, twice or hold it you will get different events. You will need the “button_name” for your automation.

Like for eg. ZigBee buttons you will not get any device, you have to create an automations which fires at flic_click like here:

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Thanks. That makes things a lot clearer. However. No matter how many times or how long I press, the buttons do not seem to pair because listening never gets a response.

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You heared for flic_click? Not for flic_clic or something else?
Is it a Flic 1 or 2. I only have a few Flic 1.
This is my configuration.yaml:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: flic
    host: 192.168.178.111

I have the flicd running on another Pi. But that should make no difference. I don’t know if you can see the flicd.log. It should look like this (after Home Assistant is started):
cat /var/log/flicd.log

Available HCI devices found:

Trying hci0
Flic server is now up and running!
HCI socket busy, bringing down and then retrying
Successfully bound HCI socket
Initialization of Bluetooth controller done!
Accepted new client

If I click on a new button it flashes red. If I press it 7 seconds and the click it afterwards it doesn’t flash red, as it is connected.

Maybe your Bluetooth is not good, so the buttons don’t get it.

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They are flic 2, just got them. I get the same message in my log up to the part that says “Accepted new client.” They are working fine through Amazon Alexa but I really want to be able to run HA routines with them.
I appreciate your help.

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I never get the last line that says, “Accepted new client”

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That is not good. That message says that Home Assistant has the connection to flicd.

If you look here: Flic - Home Assistant
You have the documentation where also the automatic discovery is explained!

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There is no explanation of anything there. Install the repository, add the lines to config.yaml and press the button for 7 seconds. There are no troubleshooting tips, no way of contacting the author, nothing. I have no idea what to do.

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That is correct.

Yes, it is written how to pair a button, that is what I meant. I don’t know why it is working here and not at your installation. There are only a few things to do and they worked directly here. So I didn’t have to search for problems.
I now this doesn’t help you. :frowning:

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So I may have a solution (but I’m at work now so I won’t be able to test until I get home). It seems that the repository was added but somehow not active in HA. I was looking through the supervisor integration and saw the flic program but it was inactive. I have activated it now so hopefully that was all it took to make it work. I will test and confirm this evening.

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Nope. No luck. Still won’t connect buttons.