@knewe Thanks, I got your video.

After you have pressed Save & disconnect, and the configuration has been saved successfully, the button is now ready to be used as a keyboard on any Bluetooth compatible device such as a PC, tablet or phone. To use it as such a device, you must manually go into your system's Bluetooth settings and add it as such a device, even if you want to use the Flic button on the same device (i.e. the one that has the Flic app).

Note that after you have pressed Save & disconnect and have been taken back to the home screen of the app, you must NOT press the icon representing the button again, since that will reconnect the Flic button to the Flic app and hence change the mode of the Flic button from a keyboard to a normal Flic button. You should only do this when you for some reason want to reconfigure the Flic button again.

@andreas-lorentsen

What didn’t age well?

The flic twist is a major disappointment. I have 3 in box and no use for them.

Flimsy plastic buttons. The flic buttons are great piece of hardware. Twist feel like cheap and they are not.

Who cares about Matter integration. White Phillips hue dial is a way nicer button. The twist barely integrates with anything, so why would I use it for Hue. For Sonos an ikea dialll works great and its. Fraction of the price

No public roadmap. Instructions that require lines of code and different files.

Yes, it’s major disappointment

@Emil How was the holiday?

Unfortunately, we currently do not have a cheaper or slower option for shipping. We had something cheaper in the past and it always took several months for packages to arrive and sometimes failed to deliver. Customers were not happy with such setbacks and it cost Flic a lot to deal with such situations. Hence, we had to revert to the current shipping method.

@Emil
Thanks for the reply. I will try this. The obvious follow-on question is "will there be an IOS equivalent option?"

UPDATE:
This only seems to work, when my phone is awake and the flic app is on the screen...:-(

@scullracer isolating's answer helped me to do so (with flic 1).
I asked flic to open chrome
using the url like described in the article.

I used it without passing on any input.
Just starting the Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[name]&input=[input]&text=[text]

I replaced [name] with the name of my shortcut and deleted from the first "&" onward.

That helped me to - finally - start the iphone timer.

Thank you @isolating - thank you so much!

@Emil the app was the solution, it needed an update, now I can see the login button and it works again. Thank you very much!

@sfmclaugh said in Looking for Smart Plugs that have "Toggle" in Alexa routines:

Want to control my lights w/flic2 plugged into smart plugs using one-button press. No clue what to buy. Current plugs only have "On" and "Off". Any tips?

Is that an Alexa routines thing or a device thing? My Leviton smart plugs have a "toggle" to control them via Matter, but the routines in Alexa offer only on, off, and brightness. I suppose you could use multiple actions in your Flic Hub configuration for that button- use Matter to do the desired toggle, then an Alexa routine to control the other actions you wish this routine to perform?

Well, I'm learning more now! Leviton did tell me that yes, in fact, their 4 device switch/controller advertises itself and functions as a "light" endpoint, and also 3 "Generic Switch" endpoints. So my hope here is that I would be able to add my 3 "Generic" switches to my Flic Hub, and then control my other matter lights/outlets/etc. with the switch, without having to add another Matter controller to the mix.

Is this in the future for my FLIC hub??

@Emil This is getting ridiculous. The problem still has not been resolved and your support email team are NOT replying me.

If this product DOES NOT WORK OVERSEAS the. you should not be promoting it outside of the regions without proper testing.

This is not a cheap product and have been patiently waiting for the team to work with me to get this working for a year now. If there is NO INTENTION for this to work outside of the US via Alexa then this should be highlighted or else this is FALSE MARKETING.

To all users considering buying this for use (at least in Japan). This product DOES NOT WORK with Alexa.

@buckyswider Hi @Emil ! So I installed that beta Matter code on my Leviton plugs and switches...and VIOLA! They are now all advertising the proper tcp service all the time. (At least for the first 24 hours or so). So it seems like we are good. Presumably now the FLIC hub will never show these as "offline" again. Thanks for your counseling!

I do have another Matter related question that came up dealing with Leviton support. But I don't want to be guilty of "thread drift", so I'll start a new thread.

Thanks again!

@pianosimon Hi! Are you using Flic Universal or the Flic app for macOS?

@djadin14 maybe you got a defect unit. You should contact support at https://flic.io/support and see if you are eligible for a replacement.

@kerry-thacher Hi!

Unfortunately, no. At least not from what we have found.

You can use the "alternative keymap" in the Universal Keyboard action to prevent the on-screen keyboard from hiding while the Flic is connected, however, this also limits what we can do with keyboard commands.

(Note that you need to "Forget" the Flic from iOS Bluetooth device list if you change the keymap for it to have effect).

So Apple requires the device to identify as a keyboard to be able to do certain things, like trigger system wide keyboard commands (which is what this video suggests as a trigger for Shortcuts), and this enforces the behaviour that the on screen keyboard disappears.

Sorry about this, it would certainly be a neat feature to be able to trigger iOS Shortcuts without affecting the on screen keyboard.

@j that is the simplest way to get automatic access to your flows. You can probably set up your manual web hooks if you want, using the http request action, but you need to manually enter the url.

@gabrielmgrossman Please file your issue to https://flic.io/support.