I am looking for some sort of big programmable buttons. Not sure if something simple exists.
Basically, this is to enhance flow through clinic, looking for a relatively simple solution.
I just want some big battery-powered bluetooth buttons that I can give custom commands in tasker to text tell people to assist with tasks or bring me certain things. I’m not sure if something simple like this exists. (Thinking of like three or four different colored “easy” buttons).
I haven’t found anything quite as specific as this, but it’s been something nerdy I’ve been thinking about that would save me time.
Try looking for “smart buttons”. There’s nothing particularly “smart” about them, but they’re called that because they’re meant to connect to smart home devices like lights and switches and such. They’re relatively inexpensive, and while some of them are locked down to specific platforms like Hue and such, some of them are a bit more “open” and will just act as a basic, programmable button that can connect to another device/network and may require some Tasker fiddling to get working correctly.
If you don’t need the buttons to be spread out across multiple locations, you could also look into a macro pad of some sort, which is basically just a keyboard with keys that you can assign various functions to. Those will typically require a PC, but can handle a lot of automated tasks pretty effectively, too.