Wireless Wall Switch (ZME_WALLC-S) to control Smartthings devices and routines

[JDRoberts]

I personally like the smartenIt 3 toggle switch, which is battery operated and can be wall-mounted or tabletop. It is a Zigbee device, but works just like a minimote with smartthings. But it only has three buttons and a lot of people may want more.

Battery Operated 3 Toggle Switch for wallmount or table top use (SmartenIT ZBWS3B) [DEPRECATED: STOPPED WORKING IN 2018]

This code stopped working with the 2018 version of the SmartThings app. The device should no longer be considered compatible. Yes, Virginia, there is a battery operated toggle switch that looks like a regular switch and can be used to change modes, run Hello Home Actions, or toggle one or more devices on and off! It does have 3 toggle “buttons” instead of just 1, which some people will see as a negative, but it’s a very nice device. It can be mounted on the wall anywhere, it does not require any wiring. Or it can just lie flat on a table. It’s zigbee, but because SmartThings supports both zigbee and zwave, that doesn’t matter, you can still use it to control any of the devices you control through SmartThings. You can also easily feel the separations between the three toggles, …

I know at one point @Tyler was looking into multibutton wall-mounted devices, but I don’t know what conclusions he came to. It’s challenging to find devices that will work in a way that makes sense for a multiprotocol installation.

The other option that a lot of people use is a wall-mounted tablet dashboard like http://www.smarttiles.click

I’m not sure what’s available in Europe, but here in the US you can also get a Wi-Fi phone with a touchscreen for under $20 (no activation required to just run it on wifi) and put a simplified version of the dashboard on that. So the Dashboard options fill in the gap for a lot of people.