New plugin pimatic-amazing-dash-button

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I think the price-tag is too high. A community driven open source dash-button with 3D-printed enclosure can possibly be built for less.

@michbeck100 you could we have just received a bunch of it in my company

@n3ro let me put it that way: the way we detect the dash button, supports only a single press. So i guess @mwittig is right, the price tag for a simple button is too high. All the other features would probably need AWS cloud service. This might be possible once we have Amazon echo support.

@n3ro said in New plugin pimatic-amazing-dash-button:

you could we have just received a bunch of it in my company

If you’re willing to provide an IoT button for testing (return after 4-6 weeks) I’d interested in looking into this. An interesting question to me is whether these button can be accessed locally, e.g. by receiving notifications emitted by the dash on the local web, or it is mandatory to integrating Amazon cloud services. According to the information available I doubt it is possible to access it locally as the messages will be encrypted. I think all the “programming” (configuration, basically) is done via AWS.

https://www.hackster.io/AmazonWebServices/products/aws-iot-button

Want to try to add device by hand and can’t find amazingdashbutton in my available device list. After editing of config, my button is working. Why i can’t find this class in device list?

@Swen said in New plugin pimatic-amazing-dash-button:

Why i can’t find this class in device list?

Note, you need to restart pimatic once more after having activated the plugin! Following this you should find the “AmazingDashButton” in the Device Type drop down list. Unfortunately, the items are not sorted. Thus, you may need to scroll further down.

Yes i do three times… Now after manual edit in config file i find this device in my list, too… curios.

I have a problem with the detection rate when I pressed the button.
I think a press will detect only by 70%. I don’t know if this is a Wifi Problem or If the Raspi can’t filter the MAC-Adress.

@V1per If the raspi can’t filter the mac address then it would detect no press at all. I would say its a wifi reception problem. Try to press near your access point. If you get a 100% rate then you found the problem.

Is it possible to set the attribute “interface” also to “localhost” ? @mwittig

@temp said in New plugin pimatic-amazing-dash-button:

Is it possible to set the attribute “interface” also to “localhost” ?

No, as localhost refers to the loop-back interface in most cases.

The “interfaceAddress” property may be omitted if your system only has a single network interface or the interface to choose is the first one on the list returned by the ifconfig command on the host. If the device discovery or the interaction with dash-button does not work as expected, provide the IP address associated with the network interface which shall be used to listen to ARP requests needs to be set.

Several users reported problems with their dash buttons not being detected properly. Presumably this is due to changes of the dash button firmware. I have now evidence some dash buttons only send a DHCP request on button press (and an ARP request sporadically). Following this, I have extended the detection filter to also detect DHCP requests sent by the device. pimatic-amazing-dash-button@0.9.11

@V1per said in New plugin pimatic-amazing-dash-button:

I have a problem with the detection rate when I pressed the button.
I think a press will detect only by 70%. I don’t know if this is a Wifi Problem or If the Raspi can’t filter the MAC-Adress.

@mwittig
Since the update my dash button works every time.

Thank you verry much!!!

Is it possible to check the state of the battery? Isn’t there a webserver running on the dash button where we can get this information.
Also i blocked the communication of the dash button to the amazon server in my router setup, but then the dash-plugin doesn’t reconize something when i press the button. Is it possible to block the internet communication and still use it with pimatic?

daice

@daice said in New plugin pimatic-amazing-dash-button:

Is it possible to check the state of the battery? Isn’t there a webserver running on the dash button where we can get this information.

Not as far as I am aware of. Please fill in if you have further information on the matter. The only thing I have read about is a fake Amazon Server which is simulates the server contacted by dash button. It may be the case that the battery status is transmitted at this point. Note, however, it is not that easy to get everything setup for the fake server - http://blog.nemik.net/2015/08/dash-button-corral/

Also i blocked the communication of the dash button to the amazon server in my router setup, but then the dash-plugin doesn’t reconize something when i press the button. Is it possible to block the internet communication and still use it with pimatic?

That’s working for me. My Access Router provides a feature which allows me for blocking all (outbound) internet communication for a given device (it’s basically a simplified frontend to the firewall running on the router).

Here is what i found. The article is in german, but the video is in english:

http://www.golem.de/news/reverse-engineering-mehr-spass-mit-amazons-dash-button-1701-125359.html

@daice Thanks for the pointer! I glimpsed throught the 33C3 presentations which and you’re right. The dash button web server used for wifi configuration in AP mode has a battery indication. I wasn’t aware of this. Note, however, afaics the sever is only available when the button is in the initial configuration mode. The server is no longer accessible once the network configuration has been completed.