Using Xiaomi Button to Control On/Off of outlet

[gamcon (Joseph Ong)]

Hi,

Sorry, just got my smartthings today. I had paired a xiaomi button switch to the hub, but there is no way for me to set to use the button to turn on/off a outlet.
Can anyone able to give me a step by step guide

Thanks!

[siwilson (Simon)]

You need a routine to link one device to another. Go to the automation section in the mobile app and select smart lighting. It doesn’t have to be a light, despite the name.

Create a new ‘lighting’ automation with your outlet as the ‘light’ you want to control.Select the trigger as button “pressed/held”, then pick the button and whether you want it to react on a press or a hold. you can also toggle.

[gamcon (Joseph Ong)]

thanks alot. Will try it now.

[marktheknife (Mark)]

@siwilson

You need a routine to link one device to another.

Just to clarify, it’s really a smartapp that links one device to another. Smart lighting is an example of a built-in smartapp. Others can be installed from the marketplace, like button controller, which could accomplish the same thing really.

A routine is a specific type of automation can be created to do several actions in response to many different kinds triggers.

[marktheknife (Mark)]

Also, @gamcon if you’re brand new to ST, try searching the forum for some FAQ posts, or check out the community-created wiki, http://thingsthataresmart.wiki to get an idea of how to accomplish various tasks with ST. It’s not a very intuitive system, and things can be hard to find on this forum. But it can do a lot of stuff and there’s a lot of information available here.

[JDRoberts]

This might also be of interest. The screenshots are a little out of date, but the basic approaches all still apply.

A Short Intro to Scheduling/Device Control/Rules in SmartThings Classic

(March 2018: All of the following applies only to the SmartThings Classic app. If you purchased your hub after March 1, 2018 and are using the new “SmartThings (Samsung Connect)” app, creating rules works differently.) You’ve got your hub. You’ve got some devices. Now how do you schedule what happens when? SmartThings doesn’t have a rules engine/scheduler, so there’s no one tutorial for how to do this. But it’s an open platform, and there are about 12 different ways to set up various kinds of schedules. Some require custom code, some don’t. A “scheduler” in this context is anything that causes a networked device to perform an action, even if it’s just to toggle on or off immediately. (Network engineering definition, forgive me. ) (Note: as of April 2017, the original author of …

[gamcon (Joseph Ong)]

Thanks alot guys. It help alot. The forum is abit messy, and hence need sometime to get use to it.

[abrock]

Question related to this topic. I have created a momentary button, I would like to use this button to run a SmartApp which I have assigned to the a physical outlet. The SmartApp performs a power cycle on the connected device.

If I can assign the button to my SmartApp then I can use either the SmartThings app to run the cycle or Alexa.

Thanks for your help!

[dish]

I recently added a Xiaomi Button and I want to use it to control a smart switch. It works fine if the button is the only means to turn light on/off. If I use the regular SmartThings App, the button seems to remember the state on its own. So if I turn the light on using its own switch, I have to press the button twice to turn the light off. Is there a fix?