Physical button - HELP!

[Mobile75 (Mike)]

Hello
Massive noob here so please hold on.
Can anyone direct me to a simple explanation of how, if I want to get out of bed in the morning and through the Smarthings app start my coffee machine which has a physical button that needs pressing. I have been trawling through some posts and I know the answer is here I just cant find it.

Any help would be amazing.

Mike

[Hilly_2015 (Stephen Hill)]

Prota and MicroBots by Naran

[JDRoberts]

The Prota microbot @Hilly_2015 linked to is made for just this purpose, a “robot finger.” I was just given a set of three at Christmas so I’m just beginning to set them up, but I’m going to use one on a blender that has a button that is particularly difficult for me to press (I’m quadriparetic).

This is an expensive and kind of weird option, but it definitely solves use cases that other options don’t. You need the $99 prota bridge if you want it to integrate with SmartThings, which you do through IFTTT. Then each Microbot is $49. But it works well when you have a device that you are really happy with except it needs a physical button push.

Microbots/Prota - My Experience

I purchased the microbot push/prota bridge bundle from Amazon. I’ve seen some discussion in other threads and I thought I’d share my experience. I’m using two microbots on an older pellet stove so I can control it when I’m not home. I have one to push the power button and one to push the button which controls the 5 heat levels. [image] They work well once set up. I use a virtual switch for one and a momentary button for the other which trigger the microbots via IFTTT. The actual set up was a bit of a pain because the Prota app is not very user friendly and it’s extremely slow loading. Also, connecting to IFTTT has to be done using a computer because the process does not work through the app. I only figured this out from a reviewer on Amazon who had instructions in his review.

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Push (microbot) and Prota (bridge) by Naran - A connected robotic finger--now available at Amazon

Check out this new device called the push microbot. It’s still in crowdfunding land and it looks to be part of the bigger “prota” ecosystem, but it’s a novel way of being able to automate anything that’s button operated. Hell if it actually takes off we might be able to stop banging out heads against the wall or cursing feverishly when we find out our homes don’t have neutrals wired out to our switches. Push by Proto [image]