So.. Many.. Buttons!

Hardware
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Hi all

Current setup is pretty straightforward, 2 echos, one 1st gen and the newer one with Zigbee inbuilt and a bunch of bulbs (as well as HA Dash on a tablet but that’s irrelevant).

Alexa handles some routines, I’ve integrated into HA as well.

But I’m looking for buttons. Physical buttons to trigger HA routines/automatons with.

I’ve been looking around and I’ve just landed up confused and I’ve got no idea what works and what dosn’t work with HA!

Could someone please help me? :joy:

All I want to do is have some buttons to trigger HA routines that can also be used by a kid :child:

Thanks!

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Counter question: What are you willing to spend?

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Fair!

Actually I won employee of the month so I have a £100 amazon voucher to burn :joy:

So… £100 :joy:

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So maybe I should ask Amazon for a job :grin:

Philips Hue are reliable and have a nice haptic.
Con: So nice and tiny and rolling… away while I was making the beds. But I am naturally born scatty.

Ikea Shortcut button or (my optical fav) Styrbar (don’t know if it is available in your country)
Con: the battery problem

Aqara.

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Haha, I don’t work for amazon :wink:

But the ikea one looks very promising, one assumes I need to also purchase the TRÅDFRI gateway then link it to HA?

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Feel free. I’ve connected it with my Conbee 2.

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No, no no. They are useless with the Tradfri gateway. Use them with a Zigbee stick.