Home Buttons

Name: Home Buttons
SKU: 28406
Price: 34.90 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.91 (8 reviews)

(8 Reviews)

An open source device for controlling your smart home

Designed by PLab in Slovenia

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An open source device for controlling your smart home

Home Buttons An open source device for controlling your smart home. Works seamlessly with Home Assistant. Features: 2.9" e-paper display 6 trigger buttons, multiple press support Wi-Fi connectivity …

Home Buttons

An open source device for controlling your smart home.

Works seamlessly with Home Assistant.

Features:

2.9" e-paper display
6 trigger buttons, multiple press support
Wi-Fi connectivity
Less than 1 second from button press to triggered action
Temperature & humidity sensor
Power options: Battery, USB-C, 5V DC
Greater than 1 year battery life
USB-C charging
Compact size: 87 x 87 x 23 mm

How it works

Always forgetting which button triggers which automation?

With Home Buttons you can assign a short label to each button.

The device uses an e-paper display, which enables the labels to be shown permanently, without consuming any power.

The labels can be changed directly in Home Assistant. You also define what happens when a button is pressed in Home Assistant.

Home Buttons communicates with Home Assistant via the MQTT protocol on a local network. No cloud required.

Order Options

18650 battery cell holder (battery cell NOT INCLUDED). Can also be powered by USB-C without the battery inserted.
5V DC terminal connector. Can also be powered by USB-C.
Battery holder and terminal connector in the box (NOT SOLDERED - decide later and solder yourself)
Older hardware revision (2.1) with 18650 battery cell holder. Supports ONLY battery power (USB-C without the battery inserted does not work, used only for charging). Slightly slower e-paper refresh time.

Getting started

Set up you device with the help of Quick Setup Guide.

Important!

If you select the battery powered option, you need one 18650 Li-Ion battery cell (NOT INCLUDED). Please use a high quality cell with greater than 3000 mAh capacity. The length of the cell must not exceed 65.5 mm. Button top cells might not fit properly.

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.88)

Documentation: (4.88)

Shipping: (5.00)

Communication: (4.88)

Giovanni | March 2, 2023

Great device and even a great maker!!

Let me start that I am really thankful to Nejc that offered to ship me the device a second time as the 1st time the contents of the envelope was stolen during transportation (the thief put some nice pokemon cards inside to try to match the weight, what an awful person).
Back to the review, the device is just amazing, it was enough to scan the QRCode to have all the needed instructions on my cell phone and I manage to connect it to my MQTT broker in HA in 2 minutes, it's very easy to use and nice looking as well; it's very hany to have up to 24 possible triggers and using the display in a dynamic way to display useful info is just a cherry on the cake.
Being myself a maker and tinder seller I can only advise to go for this device, it's really well done and it will help the maker to continue to develop it further!

Giovanni

Manuel | Feb. 22, 2023

Awesome buttons for controling anything you'd want

I have been searching many months for an universal solution, that I like.
This one hits the spot!

Pros:
- Nice and modern design
- Easy setup, just connect to WiFi and enter your credentials
- Temperature and Humidity sensor built in
- Detailed documentation
- Active maintainer
- Very well packaged
- Nice 3d printed case, very nice finish and material
- Very lightweight
- Auto discovery with HomeAssistant, no trouble setting it up
- Very fast delivery within 4 days to Switzerland

Cons:
- Setup is not explained on the screen
- Case cover was very hard to take off, I wish it was a bit easier. I almost broke it :/
- Requires MQTT. I don't mind, but an alternative with ESPHome would be great (seems to be in progress)
- LEDs are slightly off center, when pressing a button. It's probably a limitation, because the batter would not fit otherwise.
- No option for ordering a battery cell directly with the order. Not a deal breaker, but I had to order one elsewhere.
- Not very much configuration options for what is being displayed on the screen (max 7 characters, no icons, ...)
- Labels will reset, after power has been lost. That might be a deal breaker, if you run off a power supply like me.

Overall, this is a really good product.
I really like the E-Paper display.
Some tinkering with MQTT is required, but it's not hard to do.
I really wish that there would also be a version with a motion sensor (and maybe even more sensors?)

I hope that the seller will create more products.
I have no complaints so far, and it works much better and faster, than my old switches.

Thanks!

Response from PLab | Feb. 23, 2023

Thanks for the exhaustive review!

Could you please elaborate on this point a bit more: "Labels will reset, after power has been lost"?
This should not be the case, as labels are saved in persisted memory.

Tj | Feb. 18, 2023

Nifty smart home device

Long have I wanted a device that's just some buttons that trigger various automations around my apartment. Home Buttons delivers, and it does it with style!

It works exactly like I expected and was a breeze to integrate with Home Assistant using the provided guide. The enclosure is very well-designed, and makes great use of a dual-extruder 3D printer to add the logo and lines indicating which buttons the labels correspond to.

The silkscreen layer on the PCB is very informative and will definitely help me should I need to troubleshoot the device for whatever reason.

The temperature and humidity sensor are a nice touch, too! Now I have yet another data point for my average temperature and humidity sensors.

Overall I am very happy with this so far! Keep up the good work, PLab

Alex | Jan. 31, 2023

Great product and great documentation.

An awesome way of having buttons with labels in home-assistant. With the current firmware adding more control from inside HA making this a the top buttons with eink display from a usability and a scriptability.

Nico | Nov. 23, 2022

6 button controller with display

This is a really nice device featuring 6 buttons with configurable labels. It would be a great addition to be able to update the labels via an API, but even now the build quality is great and everything can be setup with little to no effort. Insert the battery and follow the instructions on the display. Well done!

Koen | Nov. 19, 2022

Very nice addition to my home automation

I love this button device. It works well, looks great and, very important, it has a great wife acceptance factor ;)
Instructions are easy to follow and I shipment and delivery was very fast (arrived in 10 days).

Vincèn | Nov. 16, 2022

Excellent product with great documentation

Discovered the product in an IoT blog I follow and what an amazing discover :)
Very good documentation avalaible fully online.
Simple and very nice design.
Use ESP platform for very easy integration and programming if wanted,
Standard battery and easy setup with supplied firmware.
Shipping fantastic: ordered on friday afternoon, shipped on saturday and received on wednesday in Switzerland for a very reasonnable price :)

Impatient to discover your next product ;) Hope you plan to do more as might buy some for my customers ;)

Jens | Nov. 4, 2022

Very nice!

Just what I was looking for. Comes securely packaged, quality of the device feels good and everything works as advertised. Setup was a breeze, it only took a few minutes to get it working with Home Assistant by following the setup guide. Would recommend.

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Average Ratings

Great device and even a great maker!!

Awesome buttons for controling anything you'd want

Response from PLab | Feb. 23, 2023

Nifty smart home device

Great product and great documentation.

6 button controller with display

Very nice addition to my home automation

Excellent product with great documentation

Very nice!

PLab

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