Button + (Release 0.7.17, Test 0.7.17)

Hi Adrian,

since 2 days my buttons on my buttonplus don’t work anymore.
The button screens and leds are also off and when I operate a button nothing happens.

I have not changed anything in my config. i have already tried restarting homey and buttonplus app, restarting the config. soft reset/restart button on buttonplus itself. tying to set the correct config to the button again.

The strange thing is that since the same 2 days also the temperature does not change anymore.

the display on the other hand gives all the info and keeps working as usual. the leds and screens do work on the buttons because when I press the configurations must be reloaded you do get to see the leds and flash the screens on the buttons.

do you have any tips what i can try? i am on the latest software with everything as far as i can see.

many thanks in advance for your help!

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Hi,

when trying to add a new device (one more Button+) I unfortnunatly did something wrong (my two other buttons show a white display??).
So I reinstalled the app on Homey, but this way I lost my configurations in the app. I can restore the configuration via the backup on the Button+ website, but the app doesn´t get it? In the app, the button+ device shows no configuration..

I would be lucky if someone could help me with this two problems:

  1. Why do the displays show just a white screen?
  2. How can I restore a configuration via the Button+ website to the Homey app?

FW 2.0, App 0.717

THX Thilo

I don’t know about 1 as I haven’t seen that before.
For 2, unfortunately that’s not possible. The app does have it’s own backup and restore feature, but that has more information than the Button + backup.

OK, thank you for your quick reply!
So I will start to configure as new and pay better attention to my backups…

I can’t see any reason it wouldn’t be there.
You need to select the Button + device and then the temperature capability will be available.

sorry but this option is not present 7.18
temp sensor from Button+

it was because I renamed the device from default I changed it back now it works again

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Same problem here. Is there a solution?
Thanks in advance!

Could you open the app settings page and select the Diagnostics Log option, then enable the full log and wait to see if any errors are reported. If so, send the log so I can investigate. Also try restarting the app and then send the log again.

Solved. I restored a backup and then reloaded the configuration from Homey.
It is not yet clear what caused the problem. Perhaps the submitted log files will provide more information.

Hi Adrian, my Button+ is om FW 2.01 with latest test version of your Homey App, 0.7.21.
With the Dim slider in the app I can only control the LED’s. Displays stay the same. With the flowcards to control the dimming capabity I can only dim the displays and not the LED’s. Ptp, restarted the App, installed the non test version, renewed the flowcards. Searched on this forum..
Just to let you know, no rush! It is not that important.

Thanks again for this amazing app, use it all the time!

i don’t know what happend, but after a couple of days mine restarted and everything was good again..

My Button+ is still loosing it’s configuration almost every day. Sometimes all of it, sometimes only the display.
When I reapply configurations, it works again for some time, but it keeps repeating almost every day at random times. My wifi and power supply is stable by the way; already checked that.

Any ideas here?

And (now that they’re out for some time), how are your Button+’s performing?
And are they much used or was it more of a niche product, but not very commonly used anymore in your houses?

I use two of them regularly to show my solar status so my wife knows when to put the washing machine/dishwasher on.
The one on my desk is also used to operate lights and curtains while I’m on on my PC.
So, yes still used and working well.

Ok, that is good news for you of course.
And a good WAF score… :slight_smile:

Any idea what could be the reason for loosing it’s configuration every once in a while?

Sorry, I have no idea. I haven’t seen it here, but my configuration is quite small, so not sure if that makes any difference.

Hi!
I’m new here.

Henk - Maybe you should try a factory reset of the Button+ if you haven’t already. The Wifi connection is retained so you don’t have to set it up a second time. After doing so you can then remove it from homey, and add it back to see if it makes a difference. I had an issue where one of the Bar module screens turned into white/black noise after adding it to Homey, and a factory reset fixed it.

Here’s a couple of suggestions I have for the Button+ Homey app after using it for a short while:

1 - Be able to configure the display module buttons similar to the bar modules with actions and text.

2 - Display “display configuration” entries on a single horizontal row, instead of having the header/top above the value/s.

3 - A refresh button within the configuration screen. I’ve had a couple of occasions where a button configuration was changed from an on/off-switch scenario to a dimmable scenario but the interface still showed the on/off options instead of the dimming percentage so I had to back out and go back in to see it.

4 - Is there a way to trigger a flow when a bar module button is pressed? I can’t seem to find it.

5 - Not sure if you solved it already but I saw mentions at the beginning of this thread about a suggestion to use long press in order to adjust brightness, but a difficult thing would be to determine if the action should dim up or down. Would it be possible to achieve this by long-pressing to dim down, and button press + long press to dim up? I guess it needs to introduce a short delay so the regular button press doesn’t fire accidentally, but it was just an idea. :blush:

6 - Be able to translate true/false and other common values shown in the display configuration with custom equivalents. The most obvious use case would be language translation to achieve a single language shown on the display troughout all of the information shown there, instead of having a mixed language display.

7 - I tried to DHCP reserve an IP address for my Button+ and noticed that the old DHCP IP was still referenced in the Homey Button+ app, even after removing it/adding it again. As if it is hardcoded somewhere. Eventually I gave up and DHCP reserved the first IP address it had. It solved the problem but I would’ve wanted another address to rearrange them in a way that allows multiple units to follow an address pattern (192.168.0.10, …11, …12 etc)

8 - There doesn’t seem to be a way to adjust the main color within the Homey Button+ app. I’m still able to do it from the device web page but it would be neat to have it where “all” other settings gets modified.

9 - Once a button configuration or display configuration has been set, there doesn’t seem to be a way to remove it again. The blank default option disappear after setting it up for the first time. I can of course select a button/display config that has not been setup yet, but it would go live as soon as I do, and thus may show up on the device unintentionally.

10 - Be able to select multiple devices of the same type for a single button configuration. It would allow us to toggle more than one light source on/off for example, or dim them up or down.

And finally, thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this! It is greatly appreciated :folded_hands::grinning_face:

Edit: Spelling errors and a few more notes added.

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Is there anyone here who can help me set up ButtonPlus for pages? I can’t seem to get it to work.

I am currently using different configurations to display text on the screen, one of which is a custom information screen. This appears, for example, when my washing machine is finished, taking up the entire screen so that it is easy to read and visible.

Since the new software was installed, ButtonPlus starts up every time you change the configuration. This isn’t ideal and often causes problems if the previous configuration doesn’t load correctly or loads too late. (I know this isn’t Adrian’s fault, but ButtonPlus’s.)

Now I want to replace the configuration screen with a page. If I understand correctly, this is the same thing, just set up differently in terms of programming?

My wish: normal configuration and when information is ready, it is displayed on the entire screen until it is confirmed with one of the buttons. After that, it returns to the normal configuration.

Can anyone help me with this? Please send me a PM so as not to clutter up the forum. Thanks in advance!

“EDIT” @Ranney helpt me out. thanks!

I have 20 button plus devices (9x2, 2x3 => 11 displays and rest bars) and love this app. Maybe some experiences with current versions:

Homey Pro (Early 2023)

APP 0.7.18
Button Plus 2.0.0
Homey 12.4.9
It works fine. Only issue I have to reset single buttons from time to time (round about 10 times a day but every time a different Button+) because of losing WiFi (seems to be a problem of Button+). I can reset my power supply for all buttons and check buttons every 5 minutes with ping. I also can reset power supply with the right button on the display of every set, so I can also reset all with a still working display => I can live with that

APP 0.7.18/0.7.21
Button Plus 2.0.1
Homey 12.4.9
from time to time a button lose IP Config, I need to connect wifi with Button AP an reassign Wifi configuration => not really working for me

APP 0.7.21
Button Plus 2.0.0
Homey 12.4.9
Once a day homey goes offline and I have to restart homey => not really working for me

I have the same problem with changing display configurations which results in a device restart. Could you share the solution please? I can’t find the solution in any other posts.

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