Where are the OFFICIAL instructions for how to PAIR and RESET this button?
I searched, and probably read every post in this thread with the words pair or reset, and have followed all ‘instructions’, but they’re still not working.
I just bought 5 of these.
I opened and paired two of them.
One is using the default, ‘zigbee buton’ Device Handler (because I heard it’s been made ‘officially’ compatible now),
and the other one is using the @mitchp Device Handler (just to see if it matters for what’s happening here).
They show up in the SmartThings mobile app, but don’t report anything other than battery level.
Also, nothing happens in Live Logging when I click the button, hold the button, or force the battery tray in to get the light to come on.
Since their battery levels seem high enough (one fluctuates between 88% and 100%, and the other one seems to be at 77% I think), I assume replacing batteries is irrelevant.
Can anybody help me troubleshoot these, or are mine most likely duds, and I should take em back?
@tbs26
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What lead you to consider putting cardboard under the battery?
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Has yours continued to work properly since doing that?
EDIT: Actually, I think I found it…
@Joe_Loyd
Same questions to you about this cardborad bit, and now the bending of the prong.
UPDATE:
OK, I finally got one of them to connect…properly…-ish…sort of…I think.
After seeing the comments quoted above about cardboard under the battery and bending the prong, I took a look in there, and went to work…
Poor Battery Contact Mechanism/Placement…
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Need to Prop Up the Battery to Make it Touch the Negative Contact
Since it looked like the only negative contact for the battery (above it when battery is sitting in the tray with the tray below the battery) is close to the slider opening edge of the circuit board, I added some ‘rubber feet’ material ‘under’ the battery at that spot to help force it upward so that it actually touches the contact when closed.
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Need to Bend Positive Contact Prong to Make it Touch the Positive Contact
Then, since the only way I could ever get it to give me any sort of response at all was when I pushed in really hard on the slider tray (which I now see as being the mechanism for causing the battery to touch the positive contact), I used a dental tool to bend the positive contact outward a bit to make sure it would touch when closing the slider tray ‘normally’.
Of course, now that I’ve done this, the slider tray is even MORE difficult to open, but it can be done (carefully, and with tools so as to not gouge the plastic), and the button appears to be working (with the new, default DH).
The only things that seems lacking a bit (other than no temp), are…
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Lacking PUSHED-vs-HELD Reliability
The fact that it seems difficult to establish reliability of actions between PUSHED and HELD. It doesn’t seem to have much trouble noticing a PUSH, but needs more time than what’s configured to get it to notice a HOLD.
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No Instant Feedback?
In the SmartThings mobile app (I’m on Android), there is no flash or blink or icon change or anything upon either being PUSHED or HELD. The only way I can tell if it was touched at all is to either watch ‘Recently’, ‘Live Logging’, or if/when it triggers actions from rules, etc.
Any advice on any of this?