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Amazon Introduces $20 Dash-Like Button For IoT (slashgear.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Slashgear article: Amazon has revealed a programmable Dash Button which can be assigned to any product or purpose, a customizable version of its one-touch reordering gadgets. The AWS IoT Button looks just like the existing Dash Buttons, which allow products from more than 100 brands to be ordered with a single tap -- no web browser required -- and delivered to a preset address, but is designed for developers and Internet of Things tinkerers to dig into. So, rather than having a new multipack of toilet rolls, or a fresh box of laundry detergent added to your shopping list, the AWS IoT Button could be used to trigger your lights, integrate with popular APIs from Twitter, Slack, Facebook, or others, or summon a car through Uber.It appears Amazon has already sold out its current batch.
...and also don't have a cat.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Who needs an Arduino or some shit like that? It's such a hassle programming one to be a light switch that sends telemetry data to Amazon on my own.
It's trivially easy to hack these things without going through sketchy amazon IoT services.
https://github.com/dekuNukem/Amazon_Dash_Button
I've read on the website that the battery cannot be replaced or recharged and that the life expectation is around 1000 button presses.
It's fine if you only push the button once a week to order something regularly (lasts a bit over 19 years) but for IoT usage it's not going to last nearly long enough for anything useful.
I can push a button to turn on my lights! I've always wanted to do that.
$20 to get a blank one, or $5 to get one with a Tide logo or whatever on it but you can just hack it.
https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8
https://encouragementblock.org...
It's also good for when there is something strange in your neighborhood, and you're wondering who you gonna call.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
"The battery should last for approximately 1,000 presses. When the device battery runs out of charge, there is no way to recharge or replace the battery."
a programmable Dash Button which can be assigned to any product or purpose
Also known as a 'button'.
Even easier than blocking it, you can just not set up the button to buy anything when pressed. When you first get it you have to select which product to buy so just don't do that step.
Would make a great wireless doorbell button, if you could get in there and make the battery easily replaced.
I got me these flic buttons https://flic.io/ to control my LIFX bulbs, but they could be programmed to do literally anything a script on your computer could do, or anything from dozens of included IoT plugins... I think the only difference is that FLIC requires a computer or other device to act as go-between (doesn't connect directly to your wifi)
https://youtu.be/bYYAzSzgU9c
Published on Oct 29, 2015
This video shows how I managed to hack Amazon's Dash Button as well as wire up one of Amazon's AWS IoT Buttons with Node.js to order me beer via Drizly. I teamed up with Drizly to get access to their API and will always have my favorite beer available at the press of a button!
That's against the rules now.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Alas, I don't have a rich combination of mental abilities. If I see the milk carton's empty, I should add it to my shopping list. But by the time I get to the shopping list, I've forgotten I need milk.
Worse, my SO discovers no milk and doesn't tell me.
So I can see the advantage of a few buttons here and there. Just don't want them hooked up to the Amazon/NSA servers, that's all.
"Slashdot has signed an agreement with Amazon for an IoT button registered Slashdotters can get for free! It will 1-push reorder boxes of kleenex!"
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
You can get an Arduino Mini board with WiFi module for less than $10 total and have as many buttons as you like, and a replaceable/rechargeable battery. It won't be as small though.
do you have this issue with only milk. other items on your grocery list do not experience this amnesia or are you going to have a button for each item.
It was annoying enough when you pocket dialed your wife when you sat down with your phone in your pocket. Now you might have to explain to the FedEx driver that you didn't really mean to order $2000 worth of stuff.
Amazon has a bunch of Dash buttons, but I wonder if they would do better making the buttons with an e-Ink display so only one model is needed, and depending on the function or product it is paired/activated with, would display the logo of that.
This would definitely be useful for IoT.
You have found me out. A milk button, a pet food button, a laundry detergent button and a great big red coffee panic button.
That's what Amazon envisioned. All I want is for me to control it and not them.
i envision a launch control type panel with buttons :) ;)
maybe they could make it a gui with a list of items that you could add to a virtual... cart rather than physical buttons.