![]() While they are quite flexible at a first glance, they are less than stellar in a more complex environment. While Flics were our first foray into adding physical control to our home automation, I’m not entirely sure if I would recommend them now. The hub can either connect with a bunch of network services, or work with a variety of local network devices, as well as send arbitrary HTTP requests if you configure it to. ![]() The way these work is that they are Bluetooth LE devices, that can pair with a proprietary Bluetooth LR “hub” (or with your phone). So to save the day, Luke suggested me some time ago to look into Flic smart buttons, which were actually quite the godsend for us, particularly before we had a Home Assistant set up at all. ![]() But there are many options for buttons, and they are not generally compatible with each other, and I got myself confused for a long while. These buttons also generally support more than one action connected to them (such as tap, double-tap, and hold), which should allow providing multiple controls at a single position more easily. The phone (with the Home Assistant app) is a good option, but it is often inconvenient, particularly if you’re going around the flat with pocketless clothes.Īs it turns out, one of the good things that smart lights and in general IoT home automation bring to the table, is the ability to add buttons, which usually do not need to be wired into anything, and that can be placed just about anywhere. While this works fairly decently for most default cases, sometimes you don’t want to talk, for instance because your partner is asleep or dozing off, and you still want to control the lights (or anything else) without talking. To make things easier to integrate, we also signed up for Nabu Casa to integrate our Home Assistant automations with them. I only keep Assistant in the office because it’s easiest to disable the mic on it with the physical switch, but otherwise we like the convenience of asking Alexa for the weather, or let Google read Sarah Millican for us. Today I want to get into a little bit more detail of how we manage to use all of these lights without relying solely on our phones, or on the voice controlled assistants.įirst of all, yes, we do have both Google Assistant and Alexa at home. In the previous post on the matter, I described the setup of lighting solutions that we use in the current apartment, as well as the previous apartment, and my mother’s house.
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