Looking for a wifi hand-held switch (remote-like) for scene selection

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Hi,

I’m looking for a hand-held device with buttons (4 would be good) that I can integrate with HA to activate scenes. For some reason all the models I find seem to be ZigBee and not WiFi. As I don’t have a ZigBee gateway, i’d rather use WiFi for now.

Something like this:

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Any recommendations ?

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Probably because zigbee uses much less power, so is better for battery powered devices like a remote. I think you’ll find that a difficult search. IR or RF433 could be good options for you?

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@ogerardin

Shelly Button 1 has 4 actions

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Stop proving me wrong. :slight_smile:

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Or use an old Smartphone. I bet you have one lying around. Have it run a dashboard and you can do anything you want with it.

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The old smartphone was possibly discarded because the battery is dead. Just sayin’.

I mean, come to think of it, why not just use your current phone :slight_smile:

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Uh that’s nice. I would have preferred 4 actual buttons but it almost fits the bill! Thanks

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ZigBee uses less power, but based on the battery life time of my door WiFi sensors (months), that would be enough for me. IR/RF not good since I don’t have receiver.

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I need something that is usable by guests and literally as simple as pressing a button, so that rules out a smartphone. Also, I don’t want something I need to charge every other day.

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I’m also looking for something like this. The best option I’ve found so far is to set up Zigbee on the pi (I already have a receiver, it’s pretty cheap) and buy a Zigbee remote, there are several action switchers.

Another option is to use an RF remote and either decode it with something like sdr_433 or buy a complete set with a relay board and use those relays to trigger GPIO on Pi.

In my case it is even more complicated, as I want a wheel for volume control, like the ipod one. I think DIY is the only way here.

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I recommend BleBox products. Most of their products work over WiFi. As for the four-button remote control, here you go:

You can choose from white or black in the cheaper version without aluminum and confirmation of the action by vibration and in the more expensive version with these parameters.

Click: uRemote - BleBox

Below is a link to all BleBox products:

I definitely recommend it. I use it myself and I am satisfied.