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Expand Up @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The following button types are supported:
!!! warning
Some GPIO pins can prevent the ESP from booting when they are held LOW or HIGH. Check the hardware requirements for your board before you use a GPIO pin as a switch input.

For a momentary button, WLED detects the action _after you release_ the button. This delay lets WLED distinguish short, long, and double presses.
For a momentary button, WLED detects short and double presses _after you release_ the button. This delay lets WLED distinguish short, long, and double presses.

Set the same preset for short, long, and double press to run that preset _directly_ when the button is pressed.

Expand All @@ -108,6 +108,31 @@ Button 0 has two built-in functions:
* Hold for more than 5 seconds to open the WLED-AP access point (default password `wled1234`).
* Hold for more than 10 seconds to erase flash memory and perform a factory reset.

### Button Timing

_(available since 17.0.0)_

You can change how WLED times button presses. This helps with buttons that are hard to press quickly, like buttons with long travel or stiff springs.

Open **Config** > **LED Preferences**, go to **Buttons** and tick **Show Advanced Button Settings**.

| Setting name | Value Range | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Debounce time | 0–100 ms | 50 | Ignores button input shorter than this. This filters out contact noise |
| Long-press time | 200–4000 ms | 600 | How long you hold a button before the long-press action runs |
| Double-press time | 100–1000 ms | 350 | The longest gap between two presses that still counts as a double press |
| Long-press repeat delay | 100–4000 ms | 600 | The pause after the first long-press action before it starts to repeat |
| Long-press repeat interval | 100–4000 ms | 200 | The time between repeats while you keep holding the button |

On buttons with a double-press action, WLED waits for the double-press time before it runs a short press. A longer double-press time makes short presses feel slower.

If you keep holding a button (except button 0), the long-press action repeats. It runs once after the long-press time, again after the repeat delay, and then once every repeat interval. With the defaults, that's a 0.6 second pause, then a repeat every 0.2 seconds. This is how holding a button dims the lights, and how a long-press preset can step through a playlist.

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If you keep holding a button (except button 0), the long-press action repeats. It runs once after the long-press time, again after the repeat delay, and then once every repeat interval. With the defaults, that's a 0.6 second pause, then a repeat every 0.2 seconds. This is how holding a button dims the lights, and how a long-press preset can step through a playlist.
If you keep holding a button (except button 0), the long-press action repeats. It runs once after the long-press time, again after the repeat delay, and then once every repeat interval. With the defaults, that's a 0.6-second pause, then a repeat every 0.2 seconds. This is how holding a button dims the lights, and how a long-press preset can step through a playlist.
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The repeat delay can't be shorter than the repeat interval. If you try, the settings page marks the delay in red and won't save until you fix it.

!!! info
The long-press time doesn't change button 0's hold times. Opening the access point still takes 5 seconds, and a factory reset still takes 10 seconds.

### Example

The simplest macro preset example is getting a button to do your bidding.
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The lower part of the page configures the other hardware attached to your controller. Each is covered on its own page:

- **Buttons**: add button GPIOs and pick their type (pushbutton, switch, PIR sensor, touch, analog). What a button does is set up under [Macros](/features/macros).
- **Buttons**: add button GPIOs and pick their type (pushbutton, switch, PIR sensor, touch, analog). What a button does is set up under [Macros](/features/macros). To change the button timing (debounce, long-press, double-press and repeat times), tick **Show Advanced Button Settings**, see [Button Timing](/features/macros#button-timing).
- **IR Remote**: the IR receiver GPIO and remote type, see [Infrared](/interfaces/infrared).
- **Relay**: the relay GPIO and its invert / open drain options, see [Control a Relay](/features/relay-control).

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