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Two years ago I met some guys with an Icelandic startup to help autoshops manage their parts inventory. One cool thing they were doing was using these Dash but
by busterarm 8y ago
Two years ago I met some guys with an Icelandic startup to help autoshops manage their parts inventory. One cool thing they were doing was using these Dash buttons to let the shops reorder parts like filters, etc.
I can't remember the name but I wonder if they're impacted at all...Then again, two years is an eternity in early-stage startup time.
- tfolbrecht 8y agoAmazon still sells the developer Dash Button as AWS IoT button. Thats probably what your friends are using. They're going to be alright anyway, because if that gets discontinued you can build your own around the ESP8266. Its just a button that makes a curl request.
- dpwm 8y ago> you can build your own around the ESP8266. Having just done this with something that required an element of reliability, I can confirm that this is quite easy. Micropython is great, but I did have some reliability issues – it's quite unfortunate that the hardware watchdog timer isn't implemented yet for the ESP8266. In the end I switched to using the Arduino port and platformIO, and it's quite literally the simplest code that might work.
- ddeokbokki 8y agoThe AWS IoT button is 22GBP, I got 6 dash buttons for 99p each (on Amazon). :(
- joshstrange 8y agoYes and while you can do some wifi tricks to make a dash button work similarly to an IoT button it's not easy nor reliable. That said, the price is ridiculous, If they had made the IoT button rechargeable or have a removable battery then I wouldn't have a problem.