Flic Duo - pre-order for $49 (available Summer 2025)

[jkp]

Flic Duo Pre-Order
Batch 1 – ETD: June
Batch 2 - TBD

Our favorite smart button from CES is available for discounted pre-order

[Andreas_Roedl]

Bluetooth…

Needs the Flic Matter bridge/hub.

That’s one way to do a comparison chart:

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@Andreas_Roedl

That’s one way to do a comparison chart

Never seen so many marketing tricks in a row, or in a column!

[Automated_House (Jimmy)]

That’s one of the most deceiving charts I’ve ever seen My favorite part is saying the Aqara button is zigbee and WiFi at the top with no mention of the WiFi part being an Aqara hub and then including the Aqara hub in the price total. But the flic button points out the hub requirement at the top and then omits it in the total cost at the bottom.

[Andreas_Roedl]

And it’s the only button that acts as a MIDI and OSC controller! Single, double and long press to create a Techno track.

[JDRoberts]

@Automated_House

That’s one of the most deceiving charts I’ve ever seen My favorite part is saying the Aqara button is zigbee and WiFi at the top with no mention of the WiFi part being an Aqara hub and then including the Aqara hub in the price total. But the flic button points out the hub requirement at the top and then omits it in the total cost at the bottom.

I like Flic hardware, but their marketing is often really far off base.

All three work through Wi-Fi in the same way: through their own bridge/hub.

The Phillips hue smart button is also Zigbee.

The http requests are built into the Flic app, not the device. If you use the aqara or hue buttons with a different platform, you can also get HTTP requests.

The aqara button has matter compatibility in the same way that the Flic button does: matter over bridge through its hub.

So yeah: A bad chart. Still a pretty good device, though.

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@JDRoberts

The aqara button has matter compatibility in the same way that the Flic button does: matter over bridge through its hub

Even that part has been twisted in the chart. Unlike Aqara, Philips or Ikea, the Flic button cannot be bridged and cannot be used in your Matter compatible platform.

What Flic buttons can do is control devices that integrate with Flic hub, which includes Matter devices since the Flic hub is a controller.

Just like you can use any button compatible with the Aqara M3 hub or the SmartThings hub to run automations with Matter devices or other technologies supported by the hubs. But that doesn’t make those buttons compatible with Matter if you can’t integrate them in a Matter platform.

[Andreas_Roedl]

Flic is ready to control all your Matter devices

The reason why we became a Matter Controller was to be able to add Matter support to our products; the Flic button and the Flic Twist. Since there is no concept of rotational dimmers as input devices in Matter, this was the only way we could achieve this. As a result, Flic Twist is the first wireless dimmer in the world that can control Matter devices!

I’ll just wait for the LG buttons.

[JDRoberts]

Good point—thanks for the correction!