My wife has some holiday decorations that use the CR232 button batteries. She would like for them to be turned off and on automatically. I currently control a lot of her other holiday decorations that are plug in decorations. Some of her decorations use AA or AAA batteries, I bought some of those plug adapters that have dummy AA or AAA batteries. So adding a zwave plug in adapter works perfectly with these.
Has anyone thought of a way to automate these decorations that have these little button batteries?
But you can get a dummy battery for almost any size. For example, here’s one for a CR 2032, which is a popular button size.:
Then it’s the Same setup like you described for the other devices: just plug it into something that you can control.
At our house, we use the Meross WiFi power strip. It has four individually controlled regular sockets plus a group of four USB slots, which are controlled as a single on/off unit. So that might be one possibility. It has HomeKit integration and an integration with SmartThings provided by the manufacturer.
The HomeKit integration is local and has been very reliable for us.
The SmartThings integration to the same device is cloud to cloud and seems to go out two or three times a year for a few days until they fix it again.
So I just mention this as one Example, but you might be able to find a similar device of a different protocol.
