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I'm looking for large, battery powered customizable Bluetooth buttons (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by nmill11b@lemmy.ml to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de

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I am looking for some sort of big programmable buttons. Not sure if something simple exists.

Basically, this is to enhance flow through clinic, looking for a relatively simple solution.

I just want some big battery-powered bluetooth buttons that I can give custom commands in tasker to text tell people to assist with tasks or bring me certain things. I'm not sure if something simple like this exists. (Thinking of like three or four different colored "easy" buttons).

I haven't found anything quite as specific as this, but it's been something nerdy I've been thinking about that would save me time.

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why Bluetooth?

I'd do something with zigbee and home assistant. Plenty of cheap zigbee buttons can be found on aliexpress

[–] nmill11b@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This would be great, I'm okay with hubitat and smartthings (i havent used completely off of wifi, but i have a few hubs laying around), but I have a few limitations I'm not sure how to get around.. this is purely for personal convenience and IT surely would not sign off on anything network connected due to hippa.

If there was a way to have a zigbee or wave button system that was independent of a wifi network that would at least send a message to my phone, that would be ideal. I'm not sure how to do that.

Edit: I haven't had my smartthings or hubitat set up for about 8 months since I moved, but if there was a way to have them running, not constantly connected to wifi (other than when I initially set up), and have them send a message to my phone, I think that would be a pretty sweet set up.

It's been a bit since I used smartthings, I remember the local stuff being so so and it seemed like it was taken away (perhaps I'm misremembering this). I was never as facile with hubitat to be honest, but if this is possible I'd love to look into it.

[–] nmill11b@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Last edit: looks like may be a way to do this in hubitat. I'm going to put some thought into this. Thanks!!

Probably needs a raspberry pi or something to do what I want.. maybe i will figure it out to save a minute or two on different encounters (looking for folks). That time adds up for me

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