[OPINION] Button Controllers

The built-in capabilities support pushed, held, released, doubleTapped. Anything more than that is like trying to memorize Morse code. If you need a lot of buttons, I have a much better solution, the Nexia NX1000 has 3 pages of buttons that support the standards capabilities and are labelable on the LCD screen.

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It can be mounted on the wall or a hand-held remote. 3 pages of 5 buttons.

There is a built-in driver that supports this device and makes it easy to label all the buttons.

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Built-in Driver button label function:
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You may have just given me a reason to set my C7 to US :slight_smile:

But not at this price! :open_mouth:
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But that would be awesome over here, although doubt we'll see it :cry:

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$99 US.. And well worth it.. I own 3..

I don’t have to print out instructions for the family on how many button presses it takes to cause an action.

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I could find so many uses for this :slight_smile:

This may be of use to you? Its showing as $49.99!!
https://www.amazon.com/Nexia-Control-NX1000-Entirely-Customizable/dp/B015XDW85I

Shows $99US when I click on it..

Ah bummer :frowning:

Are these Z-wave Plus? The marketing materials had me thinking not, but then when I looked at the manual it did sport a Z-wave Plus logo. (I'm guessing it is, but it's kind of weird they don't like, brag about it)

Yes.. They had a pre-plus version, so if you buy from ebay it’s a mixed bag.. But if you buy from Amazon you are getting the plus version.

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Nice. Interesting device indeed. Thanks for pointing it out.
A couple UX questions come to mind...
- Do they work immediately (ie, no extra click to wake them up?)
- I'm guessing the backlight comes on when a button is pushed, but I'm curious how readable the display is when the backlight is off..?

Yes.. The text stays on the screen, the backlight does time-out but will wakeup on any press..

It's very readable in a lit room..

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They appear to be sold out. @bcopeland must have triggered a rush on them.

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Ha.. They had 2 before I posted..

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They have been re-stocking.. Because when I bought my last 2 they only had 2..

Now it says they have 7

@bcopeland... does the device show visually when one of the buttons is "active" or ON? If so, how?

No.. It’s a button controller, it doesn’t store a state.

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Neat device.

Opinion - That still doesn't alleviate the need for Hubitat to support more than 2x button presses for existing devices that support more than 2x presses, though.

Having to map those non-existent capabilities to individual new buttons is kind of lame. Can see that in inovelli and some ge drivers in devices that support >2 button presses.

Again, just my opinion (but an opinion that has been expressed by probably at least a dozen people before me too).

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Arghhhhhhh!!!! Make it stop already - I just got those homeseer motion sensor addons you mentioned now here we are yet another temptation.

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That's because I bought it :wink: Been watching these for like 5 years ... didn't realize they had a ZW+ version.

Finally .... a controller my wife will understand and want to use.

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