This is a Levoit Vital 100 and it has a timer to switch itself off after x hours but i’d like to turn it on automatically.
I’m somewhat fit with soldering and taking stuff apart but i don’t wanna go that route before i have atleast a rough understanding of what’s up with those buttons.
Thx! 🙂
Yes. SwitchBot is the biggie but there are a ton of knockoffs (google “smart button pusher”). The catch is that the security is crap - fine for what you’re doing, but I wouldn’t use it for a garage door, for instance.
I think you’d need a shortcut or script on a computer to run a scheduled task or cron job to start it, but pretty sure that’s available too. (Note - looked at them briefly, just wanted to respond while it was fresh in my mind)
it works for capacitive buttons?
It doesn’t look that way. https://us.switch-bot.com/pages/switchbot-bot
I don’t see why you couldn’t stick something capacitive to the dingus.
iirc there’s a common mod with aluminum foil tape which makes them work great with capacitive touch buttons. For some reason I remember it having to touch the negative terminal for the battery too.
How would you switch it? What’s an example of something capacitive? This hadn’t occurred to me. I do know there are supposedly capacitive styli for phones, but they don’t work very well.
Human fingers.
That would work fine but you’d probably have to replace it every couple days.
Can you do toe subscriptions?
LMBO I posted the answer to your question in this same thread at the exact same time you asked it.
https://lemmy.world/comment/20192301
Oh man switchbot is scary, a lot of awful looking IOT stuff though with one wall switch flipping peripheral. I think I’d just rip into the air filter with a soldering iron. Also better check whether the buttons are capacitive.
There are some where there’s no hub, just a standalone (I can’t be arsed to check if you still need the job for switchbot itself). Worth looking at the knockoffs since I know some exist that don’t need anything else. And I wish the security were better, but for a simple case like this I think they’re fine.