I have what i assume to be a capacitive button on built in furniture that controls some LED accent lighting… The button has a short and long press. The short press is basically on/off, and requires a pretty quick tap, hard to measure but i suspect no more than a third of a second.
I dont own the place so i want to be as non invasive as possible, so a switch/finger bot seems ideal. I will mount a soft stylus tip to the throw arm which triggers the button, but from what ive seen the press on those things seems a bit slow…
Anyone ever measure how fast a button press could be?
Other non invasive options would be interesting as well.
Thanks
I have not got a fingerbot so can’t say what settings they have for it but it should be the same.
You can either connect the switchbots directly to HA via a BT adapter if you have it on your host device or if you have the switchbot 2 hub then you can use them via matter as they connect to it via BT.
As for capactive touch control you would need to setup this with one:
thanks for the info… so its not likely to be able to press for a 1/3 of a second eh…
Also capacitive buttons are funny, i have 8 of the same capacitive buttons to trigger, 5 of which respond to a simple short to anything, while 2 will only respond to a traditional touch like from my finger or a stylus, and the other just doesn’t respond to anything…
I tried the technique in the link but no luck so the plan is to fix a stylus to each of the fingerbots… no point if i cant get it down to a quick tap though…
