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I'm using an IoT button as an Amazon Now Dash Button. With the Dash button, I've realized there's more times I need my Tide detergent or a pack of condoms soone

by do5 9y ago

I'm using an IoT button as an Amazon Now Dash Button. With the Dash button, I've realized there's more times I need my Tide detergent or a pack of condoms sooner than later and luckily I'm a programmer so the IoT button made this possible it's been quite handy.

colinbartlett 9y ago
Is the code for that open sourced? Perhaps my biggest frustration with Dash buttons was that they were only for specific products from specific brands and it would be great to hook an IoT button to ANY product of my choosing.
- tyingq 9y ago
  That's what Amazon's IoT button is. A more expensive Dash button that you can control. https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/ https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/ "Control", though, doesn't mean source code for the device, but rather, programmatic control over the endpoint (Lambda, etc). "You can code the button's logic in the cloud " The first gen STM32 based Dash buttons were hackable[1], but Amazon changed to a different platform (ATMEL[2]) and locked them down. [1]https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-programming/connections https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-pro... [2]https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown-jk29lp/ https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown... Supposedly, though, you can associate your existing, regular Dash button to a different product: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/help/id=201730790 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/help/id=201730790
- theOnliest 9y ago
  You could use https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button, and write your own handler in Perl using an ordinary Dash button.
  - Rjevski 9y ago
    But why would you ever use such an awkward language to do this task?
    - tyingq 9y ago
      Perl is actually not a bad choice for matching a Mac address, and invoking some external event. Why would it be awkward?
      - Rjevski 9y ago
        Well it's more about the language being needlessly complicated and having 10x different ways to do the same thing, not to mention the language (Perl 5 that is - 6 is a different story) lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions (you have to get "shims" like Moose or Try::Tiny from CPAN to fill those gaps). Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby?
        tyingq 9y ago
        >lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions Perl does OO without Moose. There is a tiny bit of boilerplate, but it's essentially bless() and 1 or 2 lines in the constructor. Try/catch blocks are indeed an add on. The traditional pattern is more golang like, returning an error code, then using Carp or similar for stack traces. >Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby? That might be an interesting discussion for a large codebase, but for something limited in scope like this, I just don't see the problem.

by do5 9y ago

colinbartlett 9y ago

Is the code for that open sourced? Perhaps my biggest frustration with Dash buttons was that they were only for specific products from specific brands and it would be great to hook an IoT button to ANY product of my choosing.

tyingq 9y ago
That's what Amazon's IoT button is. A more expensive Dash button that you can control. https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/ https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/ "Control", though, doesn't mean source code for the device, but rather, programmatic control over the endpoint (Lambda, etc). "You can code the button's logic in the cloud " The first gen STM32 based Dash buttons were hackable[1], but Amazon changed to a different platform (ATMEL[2]) and locked them down. [1]https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-programming/connections https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-pro... [2]https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown-jk29lp/ https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown... Supposedly, though, you can associate your existing, regular Dash button to a different product: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/help/id=201730790 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/help/id=201730790
theOnliest 9y ago
You could use https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button https://metacpan.org/pod/Amazon::Dash::Button, and write your own handler in Perl using an ordinary Dash button.
- Rjevski 9y ago
  But why would you ever use such an awkward language to do this task?
  - tyingq 9y ago
    Perl is actually not a bad choice for matching a Mac address, and invoking some external event. Why would it be awkward?
    - Rjevski 9y ago
      Well it's more about the language being needlessly complicated and having 10x different ways to do the same thing, not to mention the language (Perl 5 that is - 6 is a different story) lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions (you have to get "shims" like Moose or Try::Tiny from CPAN to fill those gaps). Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby?
      - tyingq 9y ago
        >lacks essential concepts like object orientation and exceptions Perl does OO without Moose. There is a tiny bit of boilerplate, but it's essentially bless() and 1 or 2 lines in the constructor. Try/catch blocks are indeed an add on. The traditional pattern is more golang like, returning an error code, then using Carp or similar for stack traces. >Why would you choose something like this instead of Python or Ruby? That might be an interesting discussion for a large codebase, but for something limited in scope like this, I just don't see the problem.