A pill compliance device maintains a patient's pill supply and monitors the patient's access to pills contained in the device to memorialize the patient's compliance with his/her pill-taking regimen. The device has a housing, including an inner pill or capsule storage compartment and an electronics unit, a removable cover, a switch to detect removal of the cover and magnet away from the housing, and to detect a replacement of the cover and magnet to the housing, wherein activating the switch triggers a transition from an active state, to a dormant state, and vice versa. A transition from the dormant state to the active state, by replacing the cover to the housing generates a pill-taken signal. A microcontroller generates a compliance notification signal that is communicated wirelessly, to memorialize the apparent compliance.