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Can you 'root' them to do your bidding? For 5usd they don't sound bad.

by fxfan 8y ago

isoskeles 8y ago
I think so. Ex: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/with-push-of-button-complaint-on-airplane-noise-is-filed/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/with-push-of-butto... > Airnoise is the brainchild of California resident Chris McCann, who repurposed the same plastic Dash Button that Amazon customers use to order toilet paper and detergent.
- gmu3 8y ago
  Who knows what that person used but they also sell a developer friendly version (although the battery isn't replaceable) https://www.amazon.com/1st-Generation-AWS-IoT-Button/dp/B01C7WE5WM/ https://www.amazon.com/1st-Generation-AWS-IoT-Button/dp/B01C...
blackfawn 8y ago
You can reprogram the STM32 microcontroller in them[0]. It's a fairly decent Cortex-M3 processor and it additionally has WiFi and a few other features. Some people went an easier route and just watched for the ARP request the dash button would send[1]. $5 isn't bad but when you could buy them from Amazon, you'd get a $5 credit when you used it the first time, essentially making it "free" if you needed the purchased item anyway. [0]: https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-programming https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-pro... [1]: https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button
- Hortinstein 8y ago
  author here of node-dash-button...i have let support lapse a little bit, but it still should work. Might be time to go in for a maintenance release. Glad people are still finding a use for it!
homero 8y ago
I've tried, it's been difficult so far. So i bought the aws button that can do anything using their serverless stuff.
JoshMcguigan 8y ago
You can listen to the DHCP traffic caused by the button press (the button is sleeping until pressed, so every press causes DHCP traffic) and use that to trigger any action you'd like. I wrote a simple utility[0] to do just that. The longer term issue, since these are being discontinued, is getting your wifi credentials into the dash button. At the moment I use the amazon app to do that, but I'd guess they'll be removing that functionality. I recall reading someone reverse engineering that process, but I'm not sure what came of it. [0]: https://github.com/joshmcguigan/dashr https://github.com/joshmcguigan/dashr

Can you 'root' them to do your bidding? For 5usd they don't sound bad.

by fxfan 8y ago

Can you 'root' them to do your bidding? For 5usd they don't sound bad.

I think so. Ex: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/with-push-of-button-complaint-on-airplane-noise-is-filed/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/with-push-of-butto... > Airnoise is the brainchild of California resident Chris McCann, who repurposed the same plastic Dash Button that Amazon customers use to order toilet paper and detergent.

gmu3 8y ago
Who knows what that person used but they also sell a developer friendly version (although the battery isn't replaceable) https://www.amazon.com/1st-Generation-AWS-IoT-Button/dp/B01C7WE5WM/ https://www.amazon.com/1st-Generation-AWS-IoT-Button/dp/B01C...

blackfawn 8y ago

You can reprogram the STM32 microcontroller in them[0]. It's a fairly decent Cortex-M3 processor and it additionally has WiFi and a few other features. Some people went an easier route and just watched for the ARP request the dash button would send[1]. $5 isn't bad but when you could buy them from Amazon, you'd get a $5 credit when you used it the first time, essentially making it "free" if you needed the purchased item anyway. [0]: https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-programming https://learn.adafruit.com/dash-hacking-bare-metal-stm32-pro... [1]: https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button

Hortinstein 8y ago
author here of node-dash-button...i have let support lapse a little bit, but it still should work. Might be time to go in for a maintenance release. Glad people are still finding a use for it!

homero 8y ago

I've tried, it's been difficult so far. So i bought the aws button that can do anything using their serverless stuff.

JoshMcguigan 8y ago

You can listen to the DHCP traffic caused by the button press (the button is sleeping until pressed, so every press causes DHCP traffic) and use that to trigger any action you'd like. I wrote a simple utility[0] to do just that. The longer term issue, since these are being discontinued, is getting your wifi credentials into the dash button. At the moment I use the amazon app to do that, but I'd guess they'll be removing that functionality. I recall reading someone reverse engineering that process, but I'm not sure what came of it. [0]: https://github.com/joshmcguigan/dashr https://github.com/joshmcguigan/dashr