Has anyone played with this yet?  I assume the network module would support it?

Nope, the network module doesn't do anything for those.

 

I looked at the API for those some time ago -- they contact an Amazon-owned service, which then calls to your AWS-hosted service to deal with the event.  In other words, in addition to being dependent on Amazon's cloud-based service, the device would also be dependent upon your own cloud-based service -- which ultimately could contact the UDI portal, which could relay the event to your ISY.

 

That's three separate cloud-bases services, all hosted in Amazon's cloud -- just for a button in my house to send a message to the ISY in my house.  Yikes!  Rube Goldberg would be proud of the state of IoT these days...

Has anyone played with this yet? I assume the network module would support it?

Take a look at this, maybe it will work for you.

 

Push/press/click: A smart button roundup

 

https://ifttt.com/blog/2016/09/push-press-click--a-smart-button-roundup?utm_content=buffer3b633&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Nope, the network module doesn't do anything for those.

 

I looked at the API for those some time ago -- they contact an Amazon-owned service, which then calls to your AWS-hosted service to deal with the event.  In other words, in addition to being dependent on Amazon's cloud-based service, the device would also be dependent upon your own cloud-based service -- which ultimately could contact the UDI portal, which could relay the event to your ISY.

 

That's three separate cloud-bases services, all hosted in Amazon's cloud -- just for a button in my house to send a message to the ISY in my house.  Yikes!  Rube Goldberg would be proud of the state of IoT these days...

Yikes is right.  That's not a good way to go.

Take a look at this, maybe it will work for you.

 

Push/press/click: A smart button roundup

 

https://ifttt.com/blog/2016/09/push-press-click--a-smart-button-roundup?utm_content=buffer3b633&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Thanks!  Have you used any of these with the ISY?

Yikes is right. That's not a good way to go.

 

Thanks! Have you used any of these with the ISY?

Nope - but you could send a maker URL via IFTTT to the ISY to trigger something.

I see a market for a tiny Arduino device in a button that connects to the local wifi network, and can call arbitrary URL, like the ISY directly....

 

I may disassemble that silly 'Easy' button I've had for a while....

 

Edit. Looks like the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH will do it. Arduino compatible tiny device with a full wifi stack. Battery charging circuit is onboard as well, all for $16 (US). One of those is going into my easy button....

Edited October 8, 20169 yr by MWareman

I see a market for a tiny Arduino device in a button that connects to the local wifi network, and can call arbitrary URL, like the ISY directly....

 

I may disassemble that silly 'Easy' button I've had for a while....

 

Edit. Looks like the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH will do it. Arduino compatible tiny device with a full wifi stack. Battery charging circuit is onboard as well, all for $16 (US). One of those is going into my easy button....

Will it still say "That was easy!" when you push it?

 

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Will it still say "That was easy!" when you push it?

 

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Get the sound file and have it play via the Elk security speaker when its pressed. Lol

I see a market for a tiny Arduino device in a button that connects to the local wifi network, and can call arbitrary URL, like the ISY directly....

 

I may disassemble that silly 'Easy' button I've had for a while....

 

Edit. Looks like the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH will do it. Arduino compatible tiny device with a full wifi stack. Battery charging circuit is onboard as well, all for $16 (US). One of those is going into my easy button....

 

I've been playing with the Adafruit ESP8266 "Feather" HUZZAH -- it's basically arduino-like, but has built-in WiFi.   I flashed the MicroPython firmware on it, and that works marvelously for integration with the ISY.

 

I was planning on writing something up on this at some point... but time is an issue as always!

 

[edited to add:  to date, I only have it updating variables via REST on the ISY -- but I'm toying with the idea of trying to implement a low-power, low-speed, low-update-rate, low-everything Node Server...]