# Physical button

**URL:** <https://wled.discourse.group/t/physical-button/8289>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [May 13, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/physical-button/8289 "2023-05-13T22:52:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![blazoncek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/wled.discourse.group/blazoncek/32/1886_2.png) [@blazoncek](https://wled.discourse.group/u/blazoncek)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/physical-button/8289/21 "2023-05-21T18:29:07Z")

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Please check if “Send notifications on button press or IR:” is enabled in Sync settings.  
Unless this setting is checked pressing button will not update UI and WLED state with JSON API call.

This is by design.

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**Author:** ![ALDIY](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/wled.discourse.group/aldiy/32/2716_2.png) [@ALDIY](https://wled.discourse.group/u/ALDIY)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://wled.discourse.group/t/physical-button/8289/22 "2023-05-22T03:44:53Z")

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Updated GH , i could not get that to work as expected on my test unit but might be the gentleman could test [JSON APIs assigned to buttons , e.g {"ps":"1~4~"} · Issue #3204 · Aircoookie/WLED · GitHub](https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/issues/3204)

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