Oh man switchbot is scary, a lot of awful looking IOT stuff though with one wall switch flipping peripheral. I think I’d just rip into the air filter with a soldering iron. Also better check whether the buttons are capacitive.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yes. SwitchBot is the biggie but there are a ton of knockoffs (google “smart button pusher”). The catch is that the security is crap - fine for what you’re doing, but I wouldn’t use it for a garage door, for instance.
I think you’d need a shortcut or script on a computer to run a scheduled task or cron job to start it, but pretty sure that’s available too. (Note - looked at them briefly, just wanted to respond while it was fresh in my mind)
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
There are some where there’s no hub, just a standalone (I can’t be arsed to check if you still need the job for switchbot itself). Worth looking at the knockoffs since I know some exist that don’t need anything else. And I wish the security were better, but for a simple case like this I think they’re fine.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
it works for capacitive buttons?
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It doesn’t look that way. us.switch-bot.com/pages/switchbot-bot
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t see why you couldn’t stick something capacitive to the dingus.
Cort@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
iirc there’s a common mod with aluminum foil tape which makes them work great with capacitive touch buttons
solrize@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
How would you switch it? What’s an example of something capacitive? This hadn’t occurred to me. I do know there are supposedly capacitive styli for phones, but they don’t work very well.