I need recommendation for Button

[Bry (Bryan)]

@trirocketman

I have used 2 ST buttons for a few months now and have only one negative thing to say about them. Sometimes you have to press the button twice to get it to work. I don’t know if the first press wakes it up or what but it always works on the 2nd press. As for the press and hold function, it has not failed on the first press. I hopes this helps.

I’ve had that issue with other buttons and believe that ST looses track of the status of the device controlled by the button. I fixed the issue using webCore to send the command to the controlled device. webCore has a setting that tells it to always send the command whether or not it thinks it needs to be sent.

I don’t know for sure if this is your problem, but it wouldnt suprise me if my technique fixes your issue. See this thread:

New Smartthings buttons dumb

I fixed all of my button issues by using webCore and disabling command optimization so that the on or off command gets sent each time. This way it doesn’t matter what ST thinks the switched item’s state is. Works perfectly every time now. It’s not local, but I don’t find the lag too bad.