It comes with adhesive backing, so it can be suck under a desk or table, and would be easy to press without looking. This makes it so that you can accidentally press it when you pick it up, and sometimes clicks aren’t always registered. The entire body of the switch acts as a button so you depress the entire face. It has a sharp, square design that isn’t super comfortable in the hand, but it has an interesting, (hardly noticeable) fingerprint design on the front of the switch, which is not a fingerprint reader of any kind – its aesthetic only. This is one of the cheapest of all of the smart buttons I’m looking at in this article. The first one I want to look at is the Sonoff Wireless Switch. Let’s start by looking at the single button smart buttons. There may be some popular buttons that are not in this review, but it’s probably because they don’t fit my requirements. This should be pretty easy, but you’ll see that Z-wave devices get a little pricier than the Zigbee or WiFi ones.Ĥ. An exception to this would be Flic buttons, which I have not seen paired with Home Assistant without their hub.ģ. Often manufacturers will say that a hub is required, but usually they can be bypassed easily. They cannot require a hub – they have to work directly with Home Assistant via the ZHA integration (Zigbee Home Automation). They have work with Home Assistant (but let’s be honest, there’s not much that doesn’t these days)Ģ. The requirements for my button selection are as follows:ġ.

* For this remote, there is a much better Blueprint if you are using Zigbee2MQTT. Because prices vary, I rated them from 1 to 5 dollar signs (“$”), where “$” is 0 to $9.99, “$$” is $10 to $19.99, etc. Here are the technical specs of the different buttons I tried.

I’ll also give some ideas for how they can be used around the house. I decided to buy a bunch from a few different brands and compare their prices and features. Recently I’ve been trying to figure out what smart button or smart remote is best for my smart home, but there are so many different options, and even when you see them online, you really don’t have a good idea of their size or quality until you get your hands on them. What’s up Smart Homers? This is the written version of a recent video I made comparing smart buttons.

Flic hub home assistant