Hi, recently joined the HA hype and had some Flic buttons and a Flic Hub laying around, so I decided to come up with a solution to integrate them to Home Assistant in a, what I would call, more natural way to interact with the button presses. Also I realize there is the flicd integration, but upon testing it, I found the coverage of using the integrated BT in the RPi4 was very weak, less than half of the Flic Hub as per my testing.
So Flic Hub has an SDK, which you can access sitting on your local network and accessing the url:
In there, login and click on “Create Module” and give it a name (whichever you want), go to main.js and paste the code below. From here onwards, modify only what is in [SQUARE BRACKETS AND CAPS]
// main.js
var buttonManager = require("buttons");
var http = require("http");
var url = "http://[LOCAL IP OF YOUR HA INSTANCE]:8123/api/webhook/[NAME OF YOUR WEBHOOK]-";
buttonManager.on("buttonSingleOrDoubleClickOrHold", function(obj) {
var button = buttonManager.getButton(obj.bdaddr);
var clickType = obj.isSingleClick ? "click" : obj.isDoubleClick ? "double_click" : "hold";
http.makeRequest({
url: url + button.name,
method: "POST",
headers: {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
content: JSON.stringify({"button_name": button.name, "serial_number": button.serialNumber, "click_type": clickType, "battery_status": button.batteryStatus }),
}, function(err, res) {
console.log("request status: " + res.statusCode);
});
});
console.log("Started");
Click on the “Restart after crash” so it will restart after every reboot, and then click the Play button. This will save your code and execute it, you should see it in the console.
Now it is time to move to HA. You will then add to your configuration.yaml the following snippet. Please note, you must know the names of the buttons, which it is assumed you do since you first added them to your hub as normal. Also, if you have more than one button, just have one “template:” definition on top, and just copy/paste as of the “- trigger:” line below as many times as needed
template:
- trigger:
- platform: webhook
webhook_id: [NAME OF YOUR WEBHOOK]-[NAME OF YOUR BUTTON]
binary_sensor:
- unique_id: "[NAME OF YOUR BUTTON]_button"
name: "[NAME OF YOUR BUTTON] Button"
state: "on"
auto_off: 0.1
attributes:
click_type: "{{ trigger.json.click_type }}"
battery: "{{ trigger.json.battery_status }}"
Finally, to interact with your button presses or holds, you can now go and create automations based on the binary sensor state and attributes, as follows:
- id: '[UNIQUE ID SO YOU CAN EDIT FROM THE UI IF YOU WISH TO]'
alias: [NAME OF YOUR AUTOMATION]
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.[NAME OF YOUR BUTTON]_button
from: 'off'
to: 'on'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.[NAME OF YOUR BUTTON]_button
attribute: click_type
state: [POSSIBLE VALUES ARE: click, double_click, hold]
action:
- [YOUR ACTION, TURN OFF THE TV, PLAY MUSIC, CLOSE THE FRONT DOOR, ETC]
mode: single
Create an automation for each button and press type combination, example: Button1 - Click, Button1 - Double Click, Button1 - Hold, etc etc, until you have all your buttons mapped out. You can also do the same with the battery_status attribute, should you wish to be notified when your buttons are running low on juice.
Have fun clicking away!
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Looks like it’s working now. Thanks for the integration!
