# Dashboard - Buttons On/Off

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-buttons-on-off/30331>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 5:43am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-buttons-on-off/30331 "2020-05-16T05:43:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![seqway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@seqway](https://community.grafana.com/u/seqway)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 5:43am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-buttons-on-off/30331/1 "2020-05-16T05:43:50Z")

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Hello,  
i would like to use Grafana also as Master of my automation scenarios.  
I have many actors that i can switch ON / OFF.  
Is it possible to implement a button in Grafana to switch something On / Off ?

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**Author:** ![amotl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/amotl/32/5891_2.png) [@amotl](https://community.grafana.com/u/amotl)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/dashboard-buttons-on-off/30331/2 "2020-05-25T16:48:14Z")

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Dear @seqway,

if you are into MQTT, you might like this guy.

> **[geeks-r-us/mqtt-panel](https://github.com/geeks-r-us/mqtt-panel)**
>
> Simple Grafana panel that allows to communicate with a mqtt server - geeks-r-us/mqtt-panel

See also:

> **[Using Grafana for submitting downlink commands](https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/using-grafana-for-submitting-downlink-commands/2959)**
>
> Introduction Within Maintenance mode galore, we rambled a bit about how to bring a maintenance mode to the Terkin appliance. A spin-off of this is a control component within Grafana – a thing I always wanted to create a dedicated topic for. So, here...

With kind regards,  
Andreas.