Reddit reviews ZRC-90US, BW8510US, by Remotec, Cert ID: ZC10-15100007

I have this the ZRC-90US by Remotec. It's not a catchy name, but it is a solid 8 button scene controller that supports single, double, and long press once you mess with the zwave files a bit.

Is there a situation where you'd want to turn on only lifx lights? If not, one option would be to setup an insteon remote to control the appropriate combinations of insteon lights. Then, you could use Home Assistant with the Insteon component to watch for lights to turn on, and turn on the corresponding lifx bulbs. It may not quite be instant, but it should happen within a few seconds.

If you sometimes want lifx only, and sometimes a combination, then you could use something like this with Home Assistant and a zwave dongle. Pressing a button will trigger a scene in HASS, which will then communicate as appropriate to you lifx bulbs and insteon switches.

Aeotec by Aeon Labs ZW130-A WallMote Quad
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ZRC-90US, BW8510US, by Remotec, Cert ID: ZC10-15100007
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016YTTIVW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_MMhIAbWNA3TM2

ST uses Zwave or Zigbee wireless protocols, for low power mesh networks.

Offhand, I don't know of any device that's purpose-built for what you want to do. That is, I don't know of a single battery powered, low-power zigbee/ZWave wireless device with a ready-to-go interface for an external switch, let alone a bank of them.

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1. Do you want it to be powered with a low-power battery? You could modify an existing device. In that case, I would suggest getting your hands on a Zwave remote with multiple buttons, and seeing if you can wire to that. I have one of these and it works well. But you'd not only have to physically modify it, you might have to generate a custom handler because the buttons have both tap and hold event generation.
   
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2. I suppose you could also modify a moisture/leak sensor. But that's gonna be $25+ per channel.
   
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3. If you can power it with 110V, you can use one of these. These are designed to be used behind regular wall switches. In this case you wouldn't hook their load up to anything, but the sense would be set to your switches, and they would generate events when switched. Again, $25 per channel or so.
   
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4. As someone else suggested, use an arduino/other microcontroller. This could be a battery or wall-wort powered device, and you could easily have a dozen switches attached with extremely simple code and directly hooking up the wires, or you could expand to hundreds of switches with a shift register. In the grand scheme of electronic design, we're talking 2-3/10 in terms of difficulty. It's also possible to create a chargeable version that would probably last several days at a time.
   
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   4a) If you go this route, I would actually look into a Particle Argon device (www.particle.io). These are basically suped-up arduinos but with all the server side network communication and rechargeable LiPo hardware built in. They are about as close to a plug-and-play version of what you would want as I can think of. $25 for the basic device. Note: There is a lower-power version that uses their own mesh network to communicate. But you would also have to get one of the Wifi versions to act as a bridge.
   
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   4b) For and of the custom electronics/arduino versions, essentially what you need is something network connected that can make an http:// call, and the easiest way I can think to integrate that http:// call would be via WebCORE; you would create a webcore routine (called a piston) and you are provided with a URL that will trigger that routine. You would then add that URL to your custom code. The Argon device I mentioned above could do this, but also has hooks for IFTTT or other cloud-based services.
   
   4c) You should also look into ESP32s, which are another flavor of network ready Arduino compatible microcontrollers. However, if you plan to push any info BACK to your device (which you did not describe), this becomes a little more difficult for a novice. Also, I am not sure if there are battery ready versions. EDIT: Yes there are.
   
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   Personally: I would go with the Argon, but if you are completely unfamiliar with arduino and how web services work, it may be a steep learning curve.

I actually use VBScript at my job, so that's a plus in my book. I DO wish Homeseer was just linux based, so I didn't have to burn a Windows VM, but you can't win 'em all.

Here's a question for you, I've got a remote, and I'm trying to make the buttons do things...

Here's some snaps.

Now, I've sort of got it working by using events, but it's not exactly the most reliable, or speediest (even with three devices in the network right now, all within a meter of each other.) Is there some better spot for If/Then logic? Like "Motion sensor says there's motion, run this event"?

Yeahhhh, you could do that. But why settle for one button when you could have eight?

Though if these were cheaper (as in, $20) I'd buy a six pack of these and just slap them around the house wherever.