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I'm searching for a wall switch (or remote that is designed to work wall-mounted) that can be programmed to locally talk to a LiFX bulb. As a bonus, it would additionally be able to talk to Insteon (compatible with Insteon Hub 2445) and have multiple buttons for several different scenarios (e.g., something similar to this six button Insteon wall switches or this 8 button one).
I was wondering if anything like this was available. Something programmable, so I can walk in the door, press a button on the wall and turn on/off a combination of LiFX / Insteon lights (preferably with say a few programmable options). Right now the only way I can turn on the LiFX bulb is from my phone, or issuing a command to my amazon echo (which aren't always heard if there's background noise), or preset schedules. (My insteon devices generally have wall switches; got the LiFX bulb as my kid wanted color lights).
Preferably it would not require using some third party API/cloud server or finding my phone (e.g., no round trip time or potential that the cloud service it relies on stops working).
This seems possible as from a computer on my network I can use the insteon HTTP RESTful API and LiFX UDP LAN API (bash example) to locally toggle devices on/off with commands like:
#Turn on/off insteon device with address ab:cd:ef with Insteon hub at 192.168.0.10
curl http://notmyuser:[email protected]:25105/3?0262abcdef0F12FF=I=3
curl http://notmyuser:[email protected]:25105/3?0262abcdef0F1400=I=3
# turn on/off all lifx devices using LiFX UDP LAN API; e.g., turn everything on/off lifx device at 192.168.0.20 with:
echo -e "\x2a\x00\x00\x34\xb4\x3c\xf0\x84\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x0d\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x75\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xe8\x03\x00\x00" > /dev/udp/192.168.0.20/56700
echo -e "\x2a\x00\x00\x34\xb4\x3c\xf0\x84\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x0b\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x75\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xe8\x03\x00\x00" > /dev/udp/192.168.0.20/56700
The closest things I seem to have found is logitech pop, but I don't really like having a single unlabeled giant button(s) and I can't tell it if goes through the cloud (e.g., potential annoying delay). I also looked a flic.io (same unlabeled giant button) but currently it pairs to phones (and wouldn't work for my wife, kids or guests until the hub comes out in months, also doesn't seem to connect to Insteon). Also tried looking into amazon AWS IoT/dash button.
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