![]() I take one out of the box, attempt to pair it, and 10 times out of 10, they NEVER pair on the first try. OK, I get that, but that’s not even what I’m referring to in relation to how badly these things (the 2nd Gen ones I have) are. ![]() ![]() So there can be a really wide variation in user experience with these just depending how you use them. That leads to a lot of the frustration and also explains why some people say they work great – – but those are usually people who are using them multiple times a day. This means if you don’t use them often they may need an extra tap to wake them up the next time. One thing to be aware as with any battery operated zwave or zigbee Button device is that they go to sleep when they aren’t used for a while. Is this last one actually a new, or different model/version, or just the same one with a goof in their online sales department or something? Basically, it looks just like the one I know as the ‘2nd Gen’ one, but with a slight difference in visual appearance, here… Now though, there is one that I don’t recall seeing before. I also know that there was an earlier version that can NOT work with SmartThings, here… Then, due to an extremely POOR physical design, for the ones that doo eventually connect and stay connected, they eventually fail, because of how the process of replacing the battery ‘ruins’ the mess that had to be constructed to get it to work in the first place)… for me, even though I’ve bought them from many different locations, only 1 out of every 5 that I tried would even connect, or stay connected. I have bought and tried to use the Lowe’s Iris Smart Buttons, like these (which I understand were the second generation the one that very rarely CAN work with SmartThings…i.e.
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