I want to set up some simple programmable buttons to run scenarios at my house and my (elderly) mother's.
Factors:
Wi-Fi enabled houses
I have a background in IT - but only done vaguely intelligent plug and play for the last 10 years.
No hubs existing.
Trying to stay cost effective.
Recommendations?
I have existing home automation scenarios, so pretty easy.
Mum's will be all new, but the most important one will be one that sends an alert of some sort to me on activation.
@Unixbigot battery powered.
My use case is for guest convenience.
My stuff is a whole mish-mash of stuff on different apps. Most Wi-Fi, some Bluetooth with proprietary Wi-Fi hubs. Then I've got about half (lights, fans) working with home automation scenarios. That's the stuff I want to put on buttons - for random guest convenience.
I also have tuiss smartview blinds that use Bluetooth that I'd like a button for - I've found a reddit post that gives me an option there and I'm looking at the SwitchBot mini hub which includes IR blaster - which may solve that problem. More research needed.
Mum will eventually also have the smartview blinds. But my main use case for her are "call me" buttons in case she has a fall when her phone is not nearby. A more interesting and complex solution needed there.
She doesn't really care about the buttons yet, but has fully embraced the ring cameras I gave them years ago and the eufy smart door lock more recently.
Andrea
Kit Bashir