Dashbutton

A simple Rust project to detect button pushes from an Amazon Dash button. Work in progress.

This project is mostly just to practice using Rust. If you want a serious project to use with your Dash button, you should probably check out something like:

• https://github.com/Nekmo/amazon-dash
• https://github.com/mikeflynn/go-dash-button
• https://github.com/chrisgilbert/godash

Installation

If you have Rust / cargo:

$ git clone https://github.com/n8henrie/dashbutton
$ cd dashbutton
$ make
$ # Optionally, if on Linux with libcap installed:
$ make rootless

Usage

Edit the included config-sample.toml to include your Dash button's MAC address and optionally the network device that will be detecting the pushes (e.g. wlan0).

Finding mac addresses

After you've connected your Dash button to your network (but made sure not to select a product, so it's not purchasing anything), you should probably be able to find its mac address by searching the output of sudo tcpdump 'arp' after a button press; the Dash button may show up as (oui Unknown).