Huh, the AWS IOT Button doesn't ship to Canada. And it isn't available on Amazon.ca. Not to be a party pooper... but, huh? Why not?
Haha. You said poop.
How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
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#12Love it, great use of technology and the poop emoji! I probably just forgot but I don't remember our kids getting up in the middle of the night during potty training. Of course we didn't even try until they were 3, you know what they say: potty training a 3 yr old takes a couple days, potty training a 2 yr old takes about a year.
Going through it right now, looking forward to the end of it.
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#13Huh, the AWS IOT Button doesn't ship to Canada. And it isn't available on Amazon.ca. Not to be a party pooper... but, huh? Why not?
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#14this is funny and a good use of off the shelf apis but it strikes me as a rube Goldberg solution: he's going through AWS to twilio to his cell provider. they're in the same building. he could've hooked up any number of things involving things like RF, Arduino, or whatever. I mean yes you don't get to play with twilio and AWS iot but those are just apis...
Probably because a call is the most reliable way of getting the alert. There are many places in my apartment in which I can't get enough reception to browse a webpage but still can receive and place calls.
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#15> brew install python3 Homebrew now installs Python 3 when you run "brew install python". I'm not sure if I agree with their choice, but it makes your guide a bit simpler.
> I'm not sure if I agree with their choice Ha! Keep holding out. Great tip. Thank you. We'll update the post.
Might also be worth changing the setup to use a venv. That way the weird bit about making sure python2 isn't on your path gets handled for you.
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#16If author is here, your code for the pip3 install was corrupted by some form of markdown common on blogs. pip3 will not understand —target. That's an em-dash there instead of --.
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#17My IoT button is stuck to the washing machine. It uses AWS Step Functions and SNS to text me an hour after it's pushed to tell me the laundry is done. Unnecessary? Completely. Useful? Heck yeah.
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#18Love it, great use of technology and the poop emoji! I probably just forgot but I don't remember our kids getting up in the middle of the night during potty training. Of course we didn't even try until they were 3, you know what they say: potty training a 3 yr old takes a couple days, potty training a 2 yr old takes about a year.
Interestingly, we found training our 16-month old took only a few weeks. At that age, they're still fascinated with you and what you're doing, so the potty stuff seems to be less tied up in the independence that they're exploring at 2.
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#19This is hilarious! But very practical. Buttons are a simple user interface to say one thing. And the phone call on the other side of the system is great. Google's Paper Signals project allow for a more complex input: voice commands. https://papersignals.withgoogle.com/ I can see demand for tons of customized versions of both of these projects. The business model is broken though. Customized hardware or software is ex…
I would 100% look forward to imaginative kids putting Google's voice recognition through some enhanced QA testing.
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#20Brilliant. Though if IoT botnets were bad, I'm terrified of what IoPeePee botnets might be capable of.