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# About
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# Overview
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While setting up some basic home automation, I realized that there things that I'd like to track simply by pressing a button. For example, has anyone fed the dog this morning? She's more than willing to ask for breakfast even if she's already eaten it :)
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IoTButton is a low-cost, low-powered, WiFi-enabled button targetting simple home
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automation use-cases. The Button integrates simply into HomeAssistant's device
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discovery mechanism, making integration with the rest of the Home Assistant
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ecosystem straightforward.
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While searching for a good product for this, I couldn't find one, so I decided to make my own. The primary goals are:
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The button combines an ESP8266 for WiFi connectivity, and an ATTINY85 for
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low-power monitoring and triggering the ESP8266.
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1. It must be cheap, ideally around \$5.
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# FAQ
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2. It must be reasonably manufacturable (on the order of 10s to 100s).
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3. It must be re-useable, no tossing it when the battery dies!
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4. It must reasonably small and inoffensive.
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5. It must integrate with HomeAssistant, ideally with minimal configuration.
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Unfortunately, shortly after I ordered my first rev of PCBs, Ikea released the $10 [Shortcut Button](https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/tradfri-shortcut-button-white-20356382/) which meets most of my criteria. Falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy, I plan to see it through to making a few of these.
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# Why are there two microcontrollers?
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# Q&A
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## Why are there two microcontrollers?
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Cost and ease of development.
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Cost and ease of development.
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