arre Smart Button with Matter & Thread

Great smart button. I bought three for my kids rooms to run their good night scenes. This is simple enough the baby sitters can easily understand it. Solid construction, great connectivity, and amazing battery life. Some people said the connection is bad but it’s excellent. You just need to make sure it’s within reach of the bridge signal or some router thread devises. I can understand that people don’t know how thread works but it’s great if you do!

Got this on March 5, 2025. It looked good, setup was easy, and when it worked, it was fine. But let’s be real it barely made it through 3 months.From the start, the connection was sketchy. Had to reset and re add it to my home app 2–3 times because it kept dropping. Super annoying, but I dealt with it.Now on day 86, it’s straight up dead. Swapped the battery, held the button forever, nothing. No lights, no signal, no life. Just sits there like it’s retired early.Honestly, I expected way better for the price. This thing quit on me faster than a knockoff gadget. Unless they fix or replace it, I’d stay away.

We have had this Arre Smart Button going on for four months now. Setup with HomeKit was quick and easy, and it has been working with Apple Home without issue this whole time.It has flexible mounting options; ours is stickered to the underside of a shelf so we can tap it on the way out the door. The magnetic base makes it easy to pop off for a battery change.Having three button states to work with has been great! We use it in conjunction with Homebridge to open/unlock our various garage doors as we leave the house. By the time we get to the garage, everything is in motion.Considering that we might tap it a couple of times a day, the battery lasting 3.5 months is hard for me to say whether that is good or bad. I just swapped it out with a new lithium CR2023 and reset the clock to see how long this one lasts. Too bad it's not rechargeable.

I have a relatively small home with several Thread routers and devices in it, and this has worked reliably. I did notice that after setting it up in one room and putting it in another, it did not work for several minutes. I'm not an expert on Thread, but I suspect that the network was "figuring out" a new route for the button as it may not have been able to reach the router it was originally set up with. Anyway, If it doesn't appear to be working when you set it up, give it some time. I have had no issues with it since then.

Buttons are very good quality and paired immediately into my Apple Home using the matter QR code. Had an issue that I couldn’t add into my Homey Pro and Sam, the co-founder helped me resolved the issue himself.