Switchbot Smart Switch Button Pusher (Bluetooth) – Fingerbot for Rocker Switch/One-Way Buttons, App Timer Control, No Wiring, Optional Hub Required for Voice/Remote, Black

Been wanting this little robot for a while I finally committed and no regrets. My ceiling fan is not smart and my house has old wiring. My ceiling fan comes with a remote and I stuck this little guy on it just right and now I can turn my ceiling fan on with my voice or my phone from anywhere. I will be getting more. The SwitchBot app makes setup quick and easy, the bot is quiet and going strong after a month of use. Best price I’ve found to make a switch or device smart. Highly recommend!

It worked flawlessly in switching on/off my Power Amp (my power amp doesn't have a remote).... Build Quality: It is small, robust and very well built. It blends in well with my Amp...well camouflaged. It comes with 3M VHB double sided tape and stick well onto the rough/mate surface of my amp. Once stick on, it is not easy to remove. It comes with spares 3M VHB double sided tape too, in case you made a mistake and need to re-install it. The finger arm was strong and robust. Surprised to see that the SwitchBot developers could fit such a strong motor into a small footprint device and powered it by a 3V Lithium Battery (CR2). Battery life was superb too. I have a couple of the SwitchBot pusher. My first SwitchBot battery lasted almost more than a year before I need to change them. Setup / Connectivity: It can be setup as a single bluetooth device or connect to the Switchbot Hub. For my case, I have the SwitchBot Hub and it does wonders. Connection was easy, just pull the plastic tab (isolator) from the battery case, select Add device on the Hub and within seconds, my SwitchBot button pusher is connected! With the SwitchBot Hub, I could connect it to IFTTT. With IFTTT, I could indirectly linked my SwitchBot Pusher to my Smartthings Hub (by creating a Virtual Switch in Smartthings, activated through IFTTT). With Smartthings and IFTTT, I could then link my SwitchBot Pusher to my Logitech Harmony Ultimate remote control as well as setup various automation routine too. Just 1 trigger on my Harmony Remote, I could switch on my TV, Music Player and my "manual push button" amplifier, all at once. It works with my Alexa and Google Home too. It is not easy to find Smart Home products that are so versatile and can be easily integrated nowadays. After sales support and Warranty experience: My first gen button pusher encountered some problems with the fingers, I contacted their support through their Facebook page messenger. I got a reply on the same day. Showed them a couple photos and videos of the problem. After verifying the problem with their engineers, without much delay and no further question asked, they offered me a replacement. As I was located in Singapore and Amazon US do not ship to my country during the Covid-19 crisis, I am not able to get the replacement from Amazon US. I informed their customer support about my issues and they immediately made alternative arrangements to send me my replacement. I received my replacement in less than a week after informing them about my issues. Thumbs up! SwitchBot. You guys are great! Looking forward to more of your fantastic products!

Ok, let's start with the first thing. These are cute little button pushers. There is something satisfying about the little "finger" popping out and pushing a button. That's about it. If you want to use this with any other smart home system, Google Home, SmartThings, etc., you'll need one of their hubs. Depending on how many "bots" you are using and how far apart they are, you may need multiple hubs. I purchased two of the switchbots and immediately was hit with, download the app, control them with Bluetooth. That's not what I wanted to do, as I have a fairly large investment in SmartThings. So, I sucked it up and ordered the hub. (just the plain square one, not the pretty cloud hub). Both hubs do the same thing, I needed function, not cutsie. I got the hub and tried to bring my two "bots" into my SmartThings universe. This was more painful than it should be. I would add one and then the next and the first would go offline. I don't know how many times it took me to get them both loaded and online at the same time, but it was quite a few. The SmartThings integration said beta or something, but I was able to get them integrated pretty easily. I setup a scene in SmartThings to control them. This is where things could be better. The scene runs just fine, but sometimes the "bots" are asleep or playing video games or who knows what. I get about a 95% of the time working, but there is no acknowledgement message that is sent back so SmartThings just tosses the ball to the "bot" and hopes everything works ok. The biggest issue is just that, if it doesn't work, you have to "sync" the bot back to the app manually. So, if it doesn't turn on the device, and SmartThings thinks it is on, then you have to turn the device on manually or the next command will do the opposite function. I have a pretty good success rate on the first action, it does ok turning the devices on, it's the off that I get about a 95% on one bot and 50% success rate on the other. This is ok for what it's doing, but if it was some mission critical device I was trying to control, 50% success is pretty low. Would I buy them again? Maybe. They do mostly work, but keep in mind that you'll need a hub to control these "bots" with anything other than your phone, and within Bluetooth range to do that. Since there is no positive or negative feed back (ACK/NAK) to your smart home, it's about as reliable as telling an 8 year old to wash the dishes. Now for more on the hub, I got the smaller square hub, but it has a really annoying bright white light that stays on all the time, I have this in my bedroom so I have to put something on top of the box to cover the light. You can still see the box "glowing" so I can tell it's on. Not the best thing I've added to my smart home, but it tries and sometimes works. I just wish there was someway to get an acknowledgement to my SmartThings universe, so I could reliably tell the status. I get that it's a digital world trying to interface with the analog world, but it could be just a bit better.

I purchased my first Switchbot Bot back in 2021 so that I could automate my garage door (I have a camera in the garage to verify if it is up or down, and use the bot on either the push button in the garage or a space remote). It worked perfectly for this function at all three of my rental houses since then, allowing me to automate something that is typically not included with the rental, while easily removing it when I leave. Since I have a two door garage setup now, I purchased an extra bot to automate both doors, since it was simply the most cost effective, reliable way to do this as compared to doing wiring, installing other apps, or some other invasive install that I would have to remove the next time I move (I am in the military, so frequent moves are a way of life). It's a no-brainer since I already have a Switchbot Hub.

alexaに「パソコン入れて」で指示するために取り付けました。 ちゃんとパソコンの電源が入るので見ていて面白いです。 両面も強力なので剥がれることはないでしょう。

Produit très pratique pour automatiser un appareil ancien qui ne dispose pas de fonctions connectées. Je l’utilise avec un iRobot d’ancienne génération et cela fonctionne très bien pour appuyer automatiquement sur le bouton power. Dans mon cas, j’ai dû imprimer un petit réhausseur en impression 3D afin d’adapter correctement le poussoir au bouton d’allumage. Une fois cette adaptation faite, le SwitchBot remplit parfaitement son rôle et devient programmable via l’application. Il fonctionne uniquement en Bluetooth par défaut, sans connexion Wi-Fi. Pour un usage à distance ou avec Alexa, l’ajout du SwitchBot Hub est nécessaire. Cela reste à prendre en compte si on veux le wifi a tout pris. En résumé, très bonne solution pour rendre “intelligent” un appareil non connecté, à condition d’accepter les limites du Bluetooth et parfois une petite adaptation mécanique.

I've tried so many smart home products across brands. The primary issue I have is that they work MOST of the times, not ALL the time. If smart home (let's use SM for this review) products are not reliable, the whole value proposition is lost as it creates added stress and frustration as opposed to convenience. This product highly impressed me. I tried using it for two use cases - pressing the button on my white noise machine and switching on/off my geyser switch. It worked like charm for both use cases. Everything in the product is right - the adhesives are strong, the attachment for switch mode is perfect, and it works every single time reliably. I recently got the remote and paired it with the Bot. Works seamlessly. My wife loved the product but she didn't like the idea of opening an app to switch on/off something. The remote solved that and she loves the experience now. Few such products exist in the market that are of this good quality and work as promised! Highly recommend!

Great product, I use it to automate light switches coupled with a door sensor and it simplified everything at low cost!

Wszystko działa jak należy. Bardzo dobry zakup. Urządzenie jest małe i ciche. Ma szybki czas reakcji. Posiada możliwość ustawienia czasu przytrzymania przycisku. Używam do włączania i wyłączania ekspresu do kawy przy użyciu Alexy. Nie podoba mi się interfejs aplikacji.