THIRDREALITY ZigBee Smart Button, 3-Way Remote Control, Require Zigbee hub, Work with SmartThings, Aeotec, Hubitat, Home Assistant, Third Reality Hub, Battery Included.

These smart buttons have worked well with my Home Assistant setup. I mainly use them to control lamps with Zigbee smart bulbs, and they're quick to respond and easy to configure for different automations.I don't use them every day since most of my lighting is controlled by Inovelli switches and automations, but they're great to have available. They're especially useful for guests or anyone who just wants a physical button instead of using an app or voice assistant.Setup was simple, battery life has been good, and they've been reliable. If you're looking for an easy way to add physical controls to your smart home, these are a great option.

I have not put all four buttons in service quite yet, though I did test them and found all four worked just fine. The couple I have put in service are working great, day in and day out, reliably activating home automation routines for me. It’s now been almost a year since putting them in service and using them daily, and they are doing great. I like that they take standard batteries, even if that does make them necessarily larger than competing smart buttons. I’d definitely buy these again for use in table-top or portable settings.

This is an awesome remote paired with Home Assistant and an AI agent for programming. Feels great, stands upright if you like, its discreet, the 1/2 layout is great for volume up down, shade up down, lights dim bright. Nice click to the buttons. Two issues I would love to see addressed in firmware update: 1 is that it would be great if simultaneous button presses could trigger events for example: hold 3 and press 1 does something different than just pressing 1, or holding 1+2 does something. The 2nd thing is that the hold function can’t be tweaked, and its a bit long for my liking. I would love to be able to shorten the time it takes to recognize a hold. Still a great remote.

I am experimenting this smart button as a garage door opener remote. This device connected to my Home Assistant immediately, and easy to incorporate into automation. The blue LED indicator comes on when the button is placed but pretty faint, so it's hard to see the blue light especially during the daytime. While I can open the garage door from the inside the house reliably, but not from outside the house - due to the limited range of zigbee. Since the remote will go offline when the remote is away from the house and need to reconnect to the network, this may be why the remote will not open the garage door immediately. I am still optimizing zigbee network, but beginning to think that my old 90s garage door remote is more reliable and has a better range than zigbee-based remote. I tried another company's zigbee remote, but no better, possibly worse than this one.Update: I ended up using a wifi-based smart button as a garage door opener, which I found it more reliable. Reconnecting to the zigbee network is too slow (I think). I still like using this zigbee button for disarming my blink system and as a smart light switch, in both cases, the button is always connected to my zigbee network at home. Unlike a bluetooth based button used in the same circumstances, this zigbee button works 100% of time.Update 2 (August 2025): Almost a year since I purchased this zigbee remote. I now have three in my house for arming/disarming my blink system and turning on/off my bedroom light. I gave up all smart options (zigbee, bluetooth, wifi buttons) as a garage door remote in the car - I think reconnecting to the home network just takes too long so I went back to the original RF remote. From inside the house, no problem though.

Works well. I was worried about the beep others mentioned but it only beeps when pairing and to indicate full charge. The three button model requires some configuration in home assistant, since it doesn't get identified as a button. You have to make an automation to listen for the ZHA events. Here's a YAML for an automation with blank actions. You can paste it in the yaml editor then add actions in the GUI. The actions go under the conditionsalias: "ZB2 Black Remote"trigger:- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 111id: btn1_single- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 112id: btn1_double- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 113id: btn1_hold- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 121id: btn2_single- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 122id: btn2_double- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 123id: btn2_hold- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 131id: btn3_single- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 132id: btn3_double- platform: eventevent_type: zha_eventevent_data:device_ieee: "c0:00:28:2c:02:b6:2c:d8"command: recallparams:scene_id: 133id: btn3_holdcondition: []action:- choose:- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn1_singlesequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn1_doublesequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn1_holdsequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn2_singlesequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn2_doublesequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn2_holdsequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn3_singlesequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn3_doublesequence: []- conditions:- condition: triggerid: btn3_holdsequence: []mode: single

This THIRDREALITY Zigbee Smart Button is easily one of the most reliable additions to my smart home. It paired instantly with my hub and offers a rock-solid local connection—a lifesaver for controlling lights when the internet goes out. The 3-way control (single, double, and long press) provides great versatility, and I love that it uses standard AAA batteries instead of those annoying coin cells, making maintenance much easier. I’ve specifically paired it with the THIRDREALITY R3 Presence Sensor, and they work perfectly together; while the R3 handles the automated presence detection, the button gives me a quick, tactile way to override scenes or trigger specific routines without needing to use voice commands. It’s compact, responsive, and available in different colors for easy room identification—definitely a 5-star product for any Zigbee-based setup!

Initially it connected to Home Assistant fine as a button with single press, double press, and long press functioning as it should. Within a few hours it stopped working. I reinstalled it only now it wouldn’t recognize it as a button. It said switch, but it would not even function as a switch. No matter what I did or how many times I removed, reset, and reinstalled it, it wouldn’t work. The only good thing about it is that it broke early on where I could return it for a full refund.

This review is for use with the Zigbee hub that’s available in some Amazon Echo devices as of 8/22/25. Functionality may be different on other platforms.I needed a quick hack for a decoupled wall switch, for manual control of a ceiling fixture with a newly installed color-changing smart bulb. In other words, the bulb must always have power, but occupants still need a physical switch.I’m using Echo’s as distributed Zigbee hubs and prefer not to add-to or replace this setup with any third-party hubs at this time, despite the more advanced capabilities and Z-Wave support that would be provided. This limits my options, but they include this Third Reality Zigbee Smart Button at a very low-cost.Pairing and learning how to operate this button took a few tries because it doesn’t work with Echo as described in the included Quick Setup Guide or the downloadable full User Manual. However, I found an online FAQ that had most of it right. Key points of my findings are:1. You must press the internal reset button 5 times quickly to switch it into Echo pairing mode (with a red flashing light).2. Tell Alexa “discover devices” rather than trying to add it yourself through the app, because you may never find the correct type of thing to add.3. Echo considers it a Contact Sensor, not a Motion Sensor or any other device type as suggested by various misinformation around the web.4. Contact Sensor emulation works as follows:a. Single button press = Open – I’ve mapped this to a routine that turns the light on at a certain brightness and color (I know, it’s the opposite of open)b. Double button press = Closed - I’ve mapped this to a routine that turns the light offc. Long button press = Toggle stateAlso, I think Echo enforces delays on accepting sensor state changes, because the routines don’t always fire within a shorter sequence of button presses (such as in testing).Perceived limitations aside, I think this will be a useful device in various upcoming applications. I’ve owned it for 3 hours. I hope the batteries last the advertised 3 years.For the decoupled light switch application, more elegant solutions are available but at 3 times the price. This Third Reality Zigbee Smart Button is a fair price for what it does.

Cannot connect to Smart Life, Tuya or any other app. Therefore useless.

Superb piece of kit, easy to add to IoT se-up and highly effective and adaptable - recommended

I have to re-pair them with Alexa routine almost every time I use them. Such a pain

El equipo no funciona directo con alexa aunque tenga zigbee, se ocupa un hub, si estas en mexico tienes que hacer el cambio de pais en ka configuracion de tu alexa, de lo contrario el skill no funcionara, tiene restriccion geografica una vez que lo haces eso funciona muy bien.Cuatro estrellas debido debido a que tengo que usar hub adicional y cambiar zona geografica en alexa.Adicional a esto cada que hay un corte de electricidad hay que configurarse de nuevo.

No es compatible con smartthings, no han añadido controlador, aunque lo reconoce no puedes generar rutinas.