Help setting up Thirdreality Smart Button | Home Assistant | Page 1

dense osprey Oct 14, 2025, 9:05 PM

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This is re: the single-button Thirdreality Smart Button, model 3RSB22BZ.

I’ve tried adding it both directly to HA via ZHA, as well as via the Thirdreality Matter Bridge.

In neither case, did HA show me the single, double, and long press events on the device page. All it shows is “firmware” with a value of “unknown” under Configuration, and Battery percentage under Diagnostic, along with the disabled entities “LQI” and “RSSI”.

Oddly, the activity pane is showing “toggle”, “Off”, and “On” when I do a single, double, and long press, respectively, but I can’t find any way to use those events in an automation.

Frustratingly, when I added the button to Apple Home via Matter, I was shown the three button press options for configuration.

I’d really like to get these buttons set up in HA.

storm summit Oct 15, 2025, 5:16 AM

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Give this a shot https://github.com/Sian-Lee-SA/Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager

GitHub

GitHub - Sian-Lee-SA/Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager: Switch manager ...

Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus. The component relies on switch blueprints which is...

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You can do this with blueprints, but this is much easier

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I believe yours is supported out of the box via ZHA https://github.com/Sian-Lee-SA/Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager/blob/master/custom_components/switch_manager/blueprints/zha-thirdreality-smart-button.yaml

GitHub

Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager/custom_components/switch_manager/blue...

Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus. The component relies on switch blueprints which is...

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 1:46 AM

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Also I ordered three of these because I like the colors

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 6:10 PM

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I tried this custom component and blueprint, and the button presses are still not triggering the actions I configure. I’ll post full details tonight.

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 6:16 PM

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dense osprey I tried this custom component and blueprint, and the button presses are still no...

Mine are coming today so I'll let you know how I get along with Z2M instead of ZHA

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 9:28 PM

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Paired to Z2M, updated firmware, created a Z2M blueprint for it (should not be a need for you since there is already a blueprint for ZHA) and it works perfectly 🤷‍♂️

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 9:40 PM

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Hmm. I'm getting button press events in the activity pane.

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These are the only available device triggers.

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These are the only available entity triggers.

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I set up an automation with the blueprint...

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storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 9:45 PM

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Did you use the custom component I linked

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Switch Manager

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 9:45 PM

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The Run action menu item has the expected result. Pressing the button does not.

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Did you use the custom component I linked
Switch Manager
Yes...

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 9:49 PM

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So you selected the ZHA ThirdReality - Smart Button

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And it found it?

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(I've never used ZHA so I don't know what the next steps look like)

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 9:49 PM

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With the custom component, the neither "Run action" nor the button press works.

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Are you using zigbee2mqtt?
I've never used it as ZHA appears to be the Zigbee default these days, but if it works, I'll try it.

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 9:54 PM

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dense osprey Are you using zigbee2mqtt? I've never used it as ZHA appears to be the Zigbee de...

Yes, but mostly because I've been using it even before I started using Home Assistant, so rather than rebuild my network I stuck with it

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If it had been the other way I may have gone ZHA

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If you do not have a ton of devices to reset I really do like Z2M

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Which coordinator do you have? It should be a moot point since you are seeing the button presses trigger

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 9:56 PM

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I'm using Home Assistant Yellow, with built-in Zigbee support.

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 9:58 PM

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Ah gotcha, I imagine that works with Z2M too but you would have to research it

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But anyway I've got the SLZB-06 PoE coordinator and the exact same button in Z2M and it works perfectly, so if you're willing to give it a shot I can confirm it does work and I can post the blueprints

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I will file a merge req with the repo owner to get it in the next version

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 10:05 PM

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I'd appreciate that, thanks!

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In the meantime, since Apple Home sees the button press options, I'm going to Rube Goldberg it...

Configure a toggle helper in HA to handle my light toggle automation
Expose that toggle to Apple Home via HomeKit bridge
Manipulate the HA toggle helper via the button press in Apple Home

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 10:10 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/charlie-day-gif-18564553

Tenor

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If it works!

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 11:14 PM

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It's more complicated than I thought, unfortunately.
I've got a support call in with Thirdreality, and I'll post here if they provide any useful info.

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 11:26 PM

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How many devices?

dense osprey Oct 16, 2025, 11:39 PM

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I have several of these buttons, but the complexity of the logic to coordinate between the two platforms is a little more than I'm finding worthwhile at the moment.

storm summit Oct 16, 2025, 11:47 PM

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Z2M is pretty seamless

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Z2M addon, Mosquitto addon if you don’t have an mqtt broker yet

dense osprey Oct 17, 2025, 3:01 AM

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I figured it out.
When I connected it to the 3R Installer app, I upgraded the firmware. The latest firmware apparently breaks the button.

I opened another one of the buttons I ordered, and just added it to HA via ZHA without connecting it to either the Thirdreality Matter hub nor the app, and not updating the firmware. It works with the blueprint just fine.

storm summit Oct 17, 2025, 6:10 AM

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Wow

storm summit Oct 17, 2025, 3:56 PM

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Out of curiosity do you know which version the hub installed on the buttons?

dense osprey Oct 17, 2025, 6:37 PM

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The hub installed v1.00.47.

I heard back from Thirdreality support. It seems they released this firmware version before releasing the associated ZHA script.

They don't have a date for the ZHA script merge, but are working with the ZHA team to get it done, and offered to provide the script for me to add locally, or alternatively wait for the official merge.

I already returned the button to Amazon after realizing that the issue was broken firmware.

storm summit Oct 17, 2025, 7:23 PM

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Unfortunate answer but at least you got an honest one

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I have nothing but good things to say about them and their products

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