Comments on: Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons

By: Marco Altomonte

Marco Altomonte — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:46:46 +0000

As antiphp suggested, I had to call “ip neigh flush…” and modify the “ip neigh | grep “$MACADDR”” by filtering out results with FAILED state.

By: TecOmar

TecOmar — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:35:07 +0000

I been trying to set this up but I get this issue
MacAdress : not found
Line 32 : EOF in back quote substitution

Can any one help?

P.s. total novice here

By: cubiclegnome

cubiclegnome — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 01:40:21 +0000

This script can be used on dd-wrt by replacing ‘ip neigh’ on line 26 with ‘wl assoclist’. Newer versions of dd-wrt replaced ‘ip’ with the busybox version which doesn’t return the needed output.

By: antiphp

antiphp — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:17:31 +0000

In reply to antiphp. *insensitive

By: antiphp

antiphp — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 13:16:17 +0000

I had same problem with static IP address, added
ip neigh flush dev wlan0
right after the Dash button press was detected. Requires the script to run as root 🙁 I also changed grep to grep -i to be case sensitive about the mac address.

By: Notorious BI

Notorious BI — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:32:15 +0000

I wrote a blog on how to do this with a DD-WRT router for those interested

http://nbiq.blogspot.com/2016/07/connecting-amazon-dash-buttons-to-ifttt.html

By: DOT850

DOT850 — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 23:14:16 +0000

Thanks for this post!

I had a little trouble getting this going:

1. MAC addresses are case sensitive. I needed to change to lowercase.
2. My router (wrt54gl) was holding the MAC address so it was always passing even if the MAC address was “stale”. I modified line 26 as the following:
`ip neigh | grep “$MACADDR REACHABLE”`

By: Rudi Pittman

Rudi Pittman — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 04:31:30 +0000

In reply to Rudi Pittman. The script failed for me because I had assigned a static ip to the dash button so it always appeared when the "ip neigh" command was executed.

By: Rudi Pittman

Rudi Pittman — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:24:28 +0000

I’m confused. I’ve modified the script to identify my dash button (74:75:48:7B:7F:02) and have it running on my tomato router. I’ve set it to a static ip and I’m seeing messages in /var/log/messages such as:

Dec 3 17:10:34 Guardian daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[10558]: DHCPDISCOVER(br0) 74:75:48:7b:7f:02
Dec 3 17:10:34 Guardian daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[10558]: DHCPOFFER(br0) 192.168.3.137 74:75:48:7b:7f:02
Dec 3 17:10:34 Guardian daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[10558]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.3.137 74:75:48:7b:7f:02
Dec 3 17:10:34 Guardian daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[10558]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.3.137 74:75:48:7b:7f:02 hefty-dash-button

However the script keeps showing “Dash not found”. Any suggestions? The only thing I did was paste the mac id on line 3. I tried it with and without quotes.