Question

Sometimes I have to double-press the SmartThings button to make it perform it's assigned functions. The button, the devices it's connected to and the Hub are all in the same room, they're on an uncongested guest network unto themselves and the hub has a hardline ethernet connection. Is the button just kinda finicky?  

Answer 1

Do you have the toggle option enabled? If so, that would be "expected behavior".  

Comments

It depends. I have outlets that are controlled from multiple sources, including buttons set with the "Turn on or turn off" option. If I turn on an outlet via button press, the next time I tap the button it will send an "off" command. But if I already turned the device off via some other means, it's going to seem like the button didn't do anything. It'll take 2 presses to get it back on. An off command and then the on command.  

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The button is just alternating between on and off. Nothing is keeping track of the on/off state of the device the button. It limits the actions of the button but you could set on to be a single tap, off to be double.  

Answer 2

The toggle function is confusing. it's really sort of a "virtual toggle" because most switches in ST don't actually support toggling. they have discrete on and off commands. So what happens is the first time you press the button it send the on command, the next time it sends the off command, etc. If at some point the device gets turned off without using the button (maybe via alexa, or some other automation routine), then you push the button and it sends an off command although the switch was actually already off (therefore nothing happens). Then the next time you press it, it turns on. I handle all my toggles using a piston in smartthings which checks the state of the device and sends the proper on or off command based on the current state.  

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Ah! You just solved a problem for me. Bathroom light has a motion sensor and a button. You go in, the light comes on. If you press the button when you leave, you always have to press it twice.  

Answer 3

Mine takes a second to process on a 2x press for off command on multiple devices too. I do not have the toggle option selected.  

Answer 4

I have had a couple of the Samsung buttons set up using the Smartlighting app and both did this. However having changed my set up they do not do it when automated through Webcore.  

Answer 5

Mine did this and I turned off Toggle which completely fixed it.