<div dir="ltr">My wifi router is doing all the work...<div><br></div><div>- Added new AP "dash"</div><div>- Route "dash" AP to Internet</div><div>- Setup Dash buttons. stopping at the product selection screen. (Note this can be skipped if you manually configure the button)</div><div>- Cut AP "dash" from Internet</div><div>- Changed DHCP logging to include "Request" and ARP</div><div>- Scan log from Python for new events</div><div>- Do whatever I please. Push Dash mounted as doorbell to send sounds to TV and music players plus send SMS that someone is at the door... turn on porch light and take a picture... electrify porch rails with the cattle tamer...</div><div><br></div><div>Advantages:</div><div><br></div><div>- The AP is always on and the Dash are connecting to it anyways</div><div>- Separate SSID keeps them off my data SSIDs plus the entire AP configuration of the Dash is done in the open where anyone with a sniffer can capture it. The Dash SSID is not routers and therefore goes nowhere if someone gets into it.</div><div>- Script doesn't have to deal with all the usually network traffic</div><div>- Dash buttons can't call home.</div><div>- I can use them once to get my $5 credit. The Energizer button paid me $0.17 to take a 16 pack of AAs off Amazon's hands after the cost of the AA and button.</div><div>- It was so simple!</div><div><br></div><div>Note that you can also telnet to talk with the button and configure it outside of the Amazon app. V1 buttons have a configuration screen via HTML. V2 buttons require special JSON requests (not complex) to pull the AP list and then set the base configuration. Using this method you never have to talk to Amazon's servers. The major advantage to this is you aren't sharing your SSID and Key with Amazon.</div><div><br></div><div>Note if anyone is looking for a button to play with, I'll have a few at the next meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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To fill in a few blanks, the scapy-dependent Dash detector involving
diaper logging that a ton of other implementations copy (including
the one Rod pointed to) is <a href="https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8#.1opwy0u3c" target="_blank">here</a>.
For whatever reason (router seems the only suspect) that code does
not work for me except for the very first time a Dash is used, at
the point the router sees it's MAC address and gives it an IP via
DHCP. <br>
<br>
Rather than figure out why it doesn't work for me or try a similar
implementation like the one Rod pointed to, I'm using <a href="http://arpalert.org" target="_blank">arpalert</a>, a relatively simple
program that detects ARP traffic and executes an arbitrary,
configured program with the MAC address as an argument (example
shell script below). It has no dependencies beyond standard network
libraries and is just exactly what I'm after, and maybe others would
find it useful too. But it has to be built from source and there are
a few wrinkles not covered by the English readme. But for an
expedient solution I contend the previous shell script I shared is
as easy as an implementation is likely to get. :-)<br>
<br>
Here's an example program that arpalert can invoke when a Dash is
pushed. The "button" variable assignment could be replaced by any
arbitrary button-specific action, for instance Python code that does
the whatsit transaction on the IFTTT Maker Channel, Raspberry Pi
code to pull a GPIO line, etc. While I'm testing it the script just
logs which Dash was pushed.<br>
<pre>#!/bin/sh</pre>
<pre>case $1 in</pre>
<pre> (f0:27:2d:d8:26:ad) button='gatorade1';break;;</pre>
<pre> (44:65:0d:14:1e:fb) button='playdoh2';break;;</pre>
<pre> (f0:27:2d:bc:be:65) button='chlorox2';break;;</pre>
<pre> (f0:27:2d:f9:36:d5) button='gatorade2';break;;</pre>
<pre> (a0:02:dc:22:57:a7) button='chlorox1';break;;</pre>
<pre> (f0:4f:7c:e8:ec:60) button='solidgold1';break;;</pre>
<pre> (44:65:0d:21:d8:45) button='playdoh1';break;;</pre>
<pre> (74:c2:46:9a:13:bc) button='solidgold2';break;;</pre>
<pre>esac</pre>
<pre>date >>/tmp/log</pre>
<pre>echo $button >>/tmp/log</pre>
<br>
-Pete<br>
<br>
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<div>On 07/23/2016 04:53 PM, Pete Soper via
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In the past couple days I've looked at a lot of different
implementations. I'm not willing to spend the time to determine
whether that one suffers the same issue that keeps the other
scapy-dependent implementation from working here. IMO <a href="http://www.arpalert.org/arpalert.html" target="_blank">arpalert</a> is an
excellent tool for this application.<br>
<br>
-Pete<br>
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<div>Have you seen this method that simply relies on the ARP
requests by MAC address? Similar to where you are heading,
but this is already complete and appears ready to us..<br>
<br>
<a href="https://familab.org/2016/02/hacking-the-amazon-dash-button-to-make-a-simple-cheap-iot-place-anywhere-networked-button-3/" target="_blank">https://familab.org/2016/02/hacking-the-amazon-dash-button-to-make-a-simple-cheap-iot-place-anywhere-networked-button-3/</a><br>
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Soper via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OK,
after wading through some cosmically complex
implementations of "detect the button push" and finding
the trivial Python program of the seminal how-to involving
baby diaper use only works in my house for the very first
button press, I wondered if these things would respond to
pings while they're winking and blinking. They do. Then I
wondered if they remember to request the same IP address
over and over. They do. So, in my house, where the DHCP
environment is very stable for the main LAN, I can arrange
for a completely reliable mapping of button to IP address.
So I can just use the shell script below for a trivial
means of detecting a button. The script puts no measurable
load on the computer I tried it on. I'm arranging a proper
scheme that keys off MAC addresses to be immune to DHCP
behavior using arpalert, but in the meantime I thought the
group might find this script amusing. (I'll publish the
arpalert-based scheme when I've worked out some patches to
that code to get a few issues out of my face and some
utilities to automate the process a bit).<br>
<br>
To use this little script I I set up a button as usual and
either use the diaper-logger's Python script or simply
look at the router's admin interface to see the IP address
dispensed. I then put that in my /etc/hosts file with a
name and use that in the script below. Making this script
general (e.g. taking the IP and text/action as parameters)
would of course be the next step with this approach.
Anyway, this script might be of interest to folks that
just want to play vs installing scapy or a hundred
Javascript modules. I' about 99 3/4% sure this would work
on Windows using Cygwin.<br>
<br>
One interesting side effect of setting up a bunch of
buttons is that my phone is simply filled with reminders
about the fact that I never selected a product for each
button. So I would add to the usual instructions out on
the net "after setting up the last button, uninstall the
Amazon app!"<br>
<br>
#!/bin/sh<br>
<br>
while [ /bin/true ] ; do<br>
<br>
ping -w 1 -c 1 gatorade1 >/dev/null 2>&1<br>
<br>
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then<br>
<br>
echo "You can get your own Gatorade" | espeak --stdin<br>
<br>
# make sure we don't double trigger<br>
<br>
sleep 10<br>
<br>
fi<br>
<br>
done<br>
<br>
<br>
-Pete<br>
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