Mastodawn

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.

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Raymond Carr

@Andrea I have a few of these Sonoff Zigbee buttons, they work quite well, can also associate single or double presses with different actions, and batteries last forever. Running #homeassistant baremetal on a RPi4 with 8G RAM, with a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB dongle plus attached. Using them to control lights (Ikea Tradfri bulbs).

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HumanizeMobility Mar 22

@rcjcarr @Andrea Seconding this. Works nicely. If you have any old computer or notebook laying around, use that instead. Power consumption is the only thing to consider here. I am using an old office mashine, consumes <10 Watt.