I purchased this button from a Chinese manufacturer that was supposedly compatible with smartthings. This button does connect easily to the smartthings hub as a “THING”. Once i’ve logged into the IDE and changed the type to zigbee button, the icon in smartthings changed to a button (Great!) , but it still doesn’t recognize a press. I wanted to know if anyone had a chance to ever work on third party buttons like this? The manufacturer told me that the button can be added by cluster, but i assume i cannot just add the cluster numbers into the code and “presto!” (tried it, and it didn’t work) , i’m sure there is a long arduous process.
Does anyone have any experience with this DIY?
here are some specs from the manufacturer as well:
Sorry I can’t help you much I’m not great with this but I remember in the SmartThings IDE you can create a new device handler from template and select button as a capability, then below it with have boxes for you to everything the fingerprint id.
Then assign that new handler to the button
RBoy
(www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)
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This is going to be an overkill, but if you have access to rboy apps you can try this device handler, it supports panic buttons. But like I said it’s an overkill because the DTH does a lot of things mostly towards ZigBee keypads but one of the features if the panic button, the rest obviously won’t work.
from a Chinese manufacturer that was supposedly compatible with smartthings. This button does connect easily to the smartthings hub as a “THING”. Once i’ve logged into the IDE and changed the type to zigbee button, the icon in smartthings changed to a button (Great!) , but it still doesn’t recognize a press. I wanted to know if anyone had a chance to ever work on third party buttons like this? The manufacturer told me that the button can be added by cluster, but i assume i cannot just add the cluster numbers into the code and “presto!” (tried it, and it didn’t work) , i’m sure there is a long arduous process.
