maxnorth Posted October 6, 2016 Posted October 6, 2016 Has anyone played with this yet? I assume the network module would support it?
mwester Posted October 7, 2016 Posted October 7, 2016 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...
Scottmichaelj Posted October 7, 2016 Posted October 7, 2016 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
maxnorth Posted October 7, 2016 Author Posted October 7, 2016 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?
Scottmichaelj Posted October 7, 2016 Posted October 7, 2016 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.
MWareman Posted October 8, 2016 Posted October 8, 2016 (edited) 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, 2016 by MWareman
giesen Posted October 8, 2016 Posted October 8, 2016 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? Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk
Scottmichaelj Posted October 8, 2016 Posted October 8, 2016 Will it still say "That was easy!" when you push it? Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Tapatalk Get the sound file and have it play via the Elk security speaker when its pressed. Lol
mwester Posted October 8, 2016 Posted October 8, 2016 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...]
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