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Our Puck (https://flair.co/products/puck https://flair.co/products/puck) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit lik

Our Puck (https://flair.co/products/puck https://flair.co/products/puck) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.

notatoad 10y ago
At 3x the price (or 12x the price of a hacked button), it's not really in the same market as the dash button though
- dmritard96 10y ago
  agreed :)
- reitanqild 10y ago
  No, it sounds way better: Puck Specifications Communication ============= Bluetooth Beacon for occupant awareness Wifi (Puck can act as its own gateway, no hub needed) 915MHz Radio for device to device communication Infrared (IR) record/playback Sensors ======= Temperature Humidity Pressure Ambient Light Interaction =========== Rotation and Click <---- Rotation is not on Amazons E-ink Display <---- added
- mikeash 10y ago
  You'll hit breakeven on the price at 2,001 presses and from that point on it'll be cheaper.
reitanqild 10y ago
That was one really nifty device. Your site mentions device to device comms. Is this user programmable? Also display only shows temp. Are there other options?
- dmritard96 10y ago
  You will be able to reflash all three radios on the device (although you will need to keep the wifi's bootloader for the foreseeable future). Otherwise use should be able to swap out the bluetooth image and the subgigahertz stack. The UI is reprogrammable without touching code also with 'microapps'. You could think of them as super lightweight shortcuts for adjusting things. You can see some examples on our twitter feed: https://twitter.com/flair_co https://twitter.com/flair_co
bambax 10y ago
This looks fantastic! > So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device Indeed, the website and esp. the pre-ordering process lets one think it's really dedicated to that use... Why not have another page with a more general positioning, this could be used for anything!
- dmritard96 10y ago
  Yeah - tell that to our investors :p (j/k I love them but they felt it important to keep focused on the marketing for a while longer). Definitely need to add some marketing pages though, one for 'generic knob' examples, and then I actually think it would be best to split up the minisplit/window ac bits from central heating and cooling.
ecaron 10y ago
Do you have a mailing list where we can sign up to know when you open it up? I almost immediately bought this, but thought "I should read up on the API first..." Reading the FAQ [https://flair.co/pages/faq https://flair.co/pages/faq] I see: "Can I write apps for Puck? Not yet. But soon." I'll buy it the moment it lets me program it to suit my needs. It looks incredibly awesome and off the bat I can think of 4 places I'd love to use it (but none of them, unfortunately, have anything to do with heating or cooling).
- dmritard96 10y ago
  I wish I saw this sooner (HN news needs notifications!). You can sign up for our email list to start and you can also start a thread on our forum (https://forum.flair.co https://forum.flair.co). Excited to hear all the cool things that you want to use it for fyi :)
feedjoelpie 10y ago
Is there at least one button in addition to the knob? How do I get my hands on a dev kit? I have been casually looking for an internet-connected dial + button + display for a long time. I have lots of different productivity uses I want to try out. Badly. Edit: I see now that it does indeed have "click" listed in the specs.
- dmritard96 10y ago
  Yes - there is a click and rotate. No dev kits just yet - we are getting close to shipping the first set of preorders and pretty heads down on that but it has a nice bootloader so you will be able to reprogram it over the air as well as via some exposed pads on the back. Would love to hear some of the things you are looking to use it for!
  - feedjoelpie 10y ago
    Time tracking, virtual desktop/spaces navigation, audio controls... scaling server resources? I don't know, there are a lot of things you can do with rotate + click + a little screen to let you know what you're doing.

notatoad 10y ago

At 3x the price (or 12x the price of a hacked button), it's not really in the same market as the dash button though

dmritard96 10y ago
agreed :)
reitanqild 10y ago
No, it sounds way better: Puck Specifications Communication ============= Bluetooth Beacon for occupant awareness Wifi (Puck can act as its own gateway, no hub needed) 915MHz Radio for device to device communication Infrared (IR) record/playback Sensors ======= Temperature Humidity Pressure Ambient Light Interaction =========== Rotation and Click <---- Rotation is not on Amazons E-ink Display <---- added
mikeash 10y ago
You'll hit breakeven on the price at 2,001 presses and from that point on it'll be cheaper.

reitanqild 10y ago

That was one really nifty device. Your site mentions device to device comms. Is this user programmable? Also display only shows temp. Are there other options?

dmritard96 10y ago
You will be able to reflash all three radios on the device (although you will need to keep the wifi's bootloader for the foreseeable future). Otherwise use should be able to swap out the bluetooth image and the subgigahertz stack. The UI is reprogrammable without touching code also with 'microapps'. You could think of them as super lightweight shortcuts for adjusting things. You can see some examples on our twitter feed: https://twitter.com/flair_co https://twitter.com/flair_co

bambax 10y ago

This looks fantastic! > So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device Indeed, the website and esp. the pre-ordering process lets one think it's really dedicated to that use... Why not have another page with a more general positioning, this could be used for anything!

dmritard96 10y ago
Yeah - tell that to our investors :p (j/k I love them but they felt it important to keep focused on the marketing for a while longer). Definitely need to add some marketing pages though, one for 'generic knob' examples, and then I actually think it would be best to split up the minisplit/window ac bits from central heating and cooling.

ecaron 10y ago

Do you have a mailing list where we can sign up to know when you open it up? I almost immediately bought this, but thought "I should read up on the API first..." Reading the FAQ [https://flair.co/pages/faq https://flair.co/pages/faq] I see: "Can I write apps for Puck? Not yet. But soon." I'll buy it the moment it lets me program it to suit my needs. It looks incredibly awesome and off the bat I can think of 4 places I'd love to use it (but none of them, unfortunately, have anything to do with heating or cooling).

dmritard96 10y ago
I wish I saw this sooner (HN news needs notifications!). You can sign up for our email list to start and you can also start a thread on our forum (https://forum.flair.co https://forum.flair.co). Excited to hear all the cool things that you want to use it for fyi :)

feedjoelpie 10y ago

Is there at least one button in addition to the knob? How do I get my hands on a dev kit? I have been casually looking for an internet-connected dial + button + display for a long time. I have lots of different productivity uses I want to try out. Badly. Edit: I see now that it does indeed have "click" listed in the specs.

dmritard96 10y ago
Yes - there is a click and rotate. No dev kits just yet - we are getting close to shipping the first set of preorders and pretty heads down on that but it has a nice bootloader so you will be able to reprogram it over the air as well as via some exposed pads on the back. Would love to hear some of the things you are looking to use it for!
- feedjoelpie 10y ago
  Time tracking, virtual desktop/spaces navigation, audio controls... scaling server resources? I don't know, there are a lot of things you can do with rotate + click + a little screen to let you know what you're doing.