if you go back to your childhood you probably remember starting and stopping
coffee makers for mom and dad you probably remember starting and
stopping other appliances for them as well
you definitely remember pressing all of the radio buttons in your car as often
and as much as you could as a result of all of this button pushing that you've
been doing your whole life it's relatively ingrained in you that buttons
drive action and as a result you can do a lot of interesting and very important
things in your life and have buttons like these become the most important
piece in your smart home
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again now I'm going to go through three
different buttons and you'll see a lot of different examples of how buttons can
be utilized and there are even more ways than I'm gonna talk about here today but
the first button we're going to start with is the Samsung smartthings button
it's a smart button it's wireless you can see that I can move it around and
it's powered by a battery that will last a very long time now what started to tip
me off about this is how my parents were actually employing this they utilize
this for a lot of lighting in their home and that's because they don't want to
remember all the different names of Lights and ask their voice assistants to
do everything so this little button solves that for them and they use it for
a ton of different lighting setups now I've set it up here in my studio and so
when I press the button you can see the lighting went out behind me here that's
my blue lighting that you normally see on the channel so a single press and and
this is where I'd say there's three different presses a single press turns
the lights on blue now a double tap actually turns them on to a red color so
you can see that behind me and I can turn them off again now there's a third
thing which is just the hold so you can see that hold has turned the lights on
white and these are just the things that I set up inside of Samsung Smartthings
so you could set this up for a number of different lighting solutions and
again this can move around you don't have to remember what you're doing with
your lights and it's very easy to press it multiple times to kind of figure out
okay yeah it turns red if I double tap it people get used to these buttons very
quickly the next button I want to talk to you about is called the Aeotec
Nanomote Quad now this is a z-wave button and it has four different buttons on it
this device I'm gonna call it a device not a button anymore because it can be
set up to trigger automations in almost limitless ways really the limit becomes
what you can remember what you want to set up now
there's four buttons and probably the way you're going to use this the most
often is either a press or a hold of any of the four buttons now on top of that
they give you this little key chain and there's a reason for that this is a
z-wave button so it can go quite far and it has quite the range away from your
Samsung Smartthings or your hub that you're utilizing so that's one of the
nice benefits of z-wave and what I've done with this is I've set up a number
of different automations in a couple of different ways now the first one is very
simple it is just the single button press and you can see the lights went
off behind me again so I just set that up just the same as my other button just
to show you that really they can do the same thing now if I hold that first
button a very different thing happens so you can see I'm sitting in the dark here
now it turned off all of my studio lighting so I've attached it to a lot of
different things that's actually a couple of smart plugs as well as the two
Philips Hue lights beside me so you can really set this up to do a lot of things
now just to show you the versatility and how far you can go with this I actually
have a sonos speaker here that again I've connected to Samsung Smartthings so your
hub would have to be able to do this or you could use a service like if this
than that to push out a command out of this button as I press it there you go
so it's actually started my sonos speaker now the third button here this is a
little bit of a different thing and I'm actually gonna start my recorder here so
you guys can see this as I press the third button I'm actually setting my
home into the home mode now if I was to hold and he heard that I got a little
notification of it if I hold the button it actually sets my home too away so as
I go ahead and leave and there it is again as I go and leave I can set my
home to an away mode and I can utilize that to trigger my security system on
now if I have this in the car with me then just before I drive away because
z-wave doesn't reach forever I can go ahead and trigger my system on and off
and obviously as you drive up you could press this and that's that should start
to open your mind to things like triggering your garage door open with
the press of a button like this now the fourth button I've set up for a couple
of different scenes that I've set up inside of Samsung Smartthings very
powerful stuff as well now the third button is actually this Flic button and
they have a new version coming out and they also have a hub which I'll talk
about a little bit later but this is a low energy Bluetooth connection that is
connected to my phone essentially indefinitely as they come into range I
can go ahead and utilize that now once they are paired you can set up a click a
double click and a hold so you're kind of hearing a bit of a pattern here with
these different buttons now I've set this one up to be more of the phone
manager than anything now I can click once and it will drive a find my phone
type of sound out of my phone
now when I hold this button I can actually trigger on a timer so this is
something that I do fairly often and with buttons like this sitting around
your home if I hold the button it will actually trigger on a timer and again
I'm going to set a little recording there just so you can see that timer set
for a minute right now and it will go off after a minute now while I wait for
that alarm to get through I'll talk about the Flic hub really quickly the
Flic hub allows this to maintain a Bluetooth connection with that hub
instead of your phone and therefore uses your home Wi-Fi after that to trigger
different automation so it makes it a little more stable it makes it a little
more user friendly you know always have to have bluetooth on on your phone and
maintaining that connection now this timer is gonna go and it is a little bit
scary so I'm just gonna be quiet here and prepare I've gone ahead and I've
connected my SwitchBot here to if this than that
and I've also connected Flic to if this than that now if I double tap I can
actually cause you heard the little sound there I can actually cause this
little SwitchBot to go now I've been utilizing this on my PC for a
little while or another one of these on my PC and you can see it would hold my
power button so I also have another button set up as a PC manager but you
can also utilize these flex for a number of different things so now you've seen a
number of different setups and I just want to talk a little bit about some of
the additional things that you can do and how that really benefits people and
when you think about these buttons being Wireless being able to move around your
home people with mobility issues can really utilize something like this next
to them so it really becomes a powerful thing people who also don't have to
remember what they're doing it's much easier to remember if I press this once
it will find my fault if I press it twice it'll turn on my
computer it it's not hard to remember those things and it becomes natural very
quickly even with multiple buttons around and you can label multiple
buttons as I've seen people do in home tours they find little creative ways to
label these buttons in different ways and so this really drives number one
adoption people utilizing these smart systems to their fullest extent and once
that starts to happen you can introduce more and more as you go forward and make
their lives better and better so guys I really hope that a video like this has
helped you think of a couple of different ways to utilize buttons in
your smart home all the links to these products are down below in the
description of course and otherwise guys don't hate automate