Seeed Studio has launched an Espressif ESP32-C6-powered gadget designed so as to add the only of integrations into your sensible house infrastructure: the IoT Button.
“Keep in mind the times when controlling your sensible house meant fumbling via your telephone, navigating a number of apps, or shouting instructions throughout the home? Whereas these strategies have their place, they usually fall quick in on a regular basis situations,” says Seeed’s Lily Li in assist of the corporate’s launch. “Right now, we’re excited to introduce the Seeed Studio IoT Button – a game-changing sensible swap that’s about to remodel the way you work together together with your Residence Assistant-based sensible house.”
Primarily based on Espressif’s ESP32-C6 microcontroller — giving it single-band 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 Low Power (BLE), and Thread- and Zigbee-compatible IEEE 802.15.4 radio connectivity, all powered by a pair of high- and low-performance RISC-V processors operating at as much as 160MHz and 20MHz respectively — the IoT Button is, because the identify implies, a push-button swap, designed for the Web of Issues. There is not any display screen, no intelligent sensors, only one single button — although one which helps single-, double-, and long-press interactions out of the field, with customizable triggers for many who want extra.
The communication is not solely one-way: there’s an RGB LED that can be utilized to point the standing of a triggered occasion, in addition to single-color LEDs to point Wi-Fi connectivity and the charging of the inner 18650 lithium-ion battery utilizing the button’s single USB Kind-C connector. On the firmware entrance, the gadget comes with ESPHome pre-loaded for fast connection to Residence Assistant over Wi-Fi — or when you’ve got a Zigbee hub, you need to use that as an alternative.
The IoT Button is now accessible on the Seeed Studio retailer, priced at $9.90 together with mounting bracket.
