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Edit: Just saw that this was also posted in this comment's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075734
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That's exactly what I plan on using mine for. It makes logging actions so much faster. I would love to just have a smartwatch with a set of about 12 or so buttons that correspond to a specific action, but that will take time to happen, if at all.
If you don't mind pulling your phone out, IFTTT launched a new app called Do that just lets you push a button to "do" something on one of their channels. They have pre-made recipes for putting the current time into Google Spreadsheets etc. https://ifttt.com/recipes/227069-track-your-work-hours I think IFTTT is working on a Pebble app as well, but it hasn't launched.
But I wonder if it might be done when leaving out the WiFi and most of the processing power from the button, and having essentially what is a RF remote control (like used for remote controlled outlet switches) with a receiving station. The receiver would be the "expensive" part, the gateway to Wifi/Internet and contain all the logic that links a button press to something usefull like a HTTP request.
A kit of
5x Etekcity Outlet Receivers 2x Remote Control Transmitters 2x 12V Batteries
can be had for 30 bucks including shipping, so based on that I could see it done.
Edit: obviously the behavior of such a button would have to be much better than a typical cheap remote control regarding reliably registering and then transmitting each and every button press, so the comparison is of course very limited
I use eps8266 for my IoT. Can't get any easier or cheaper than that. http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/89
Do the Amazon Dash buttons come with a license agreement? Has anyone read it to see if it prohibits these kinds of hacks?
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The hack here is as much sniffing the GratARP as it is piggybacking on the subsidized hardware without buying the (high margin) goods which were meant to defray the cost of the device. I shudder to think how this "ingenuity" could be prosecuted under CFAA...
Even if it was, simply hooking them up to a wifi network without an internet connection is functionally identical. Given that isn't something you can be prosecuted for, I don't see why you could convince a jury this was.
It seems possible that Amazon could set up ToS for purchase of this that would make doing this actionable.
"Hack". Uhm. Nope.