Hmm personally think these things are one step too far, like who really needs a dedicated button to order a specific product like this?
Still considering you effectively get £2.50 to own one, I might be tempted. How does the £5 credit work? Does it go onto your main Amazon account like a normal promotional credit or is it tied to the button only?
If it's the latter I will probably give it a miss as I'd want to be able to use the credit how I want and not be tied to one product...
holeymoley18 to ST3123
4 Sep 17#9
I bought a couple a while back when they were on offer (£1 button with £5 credit, I think). Was disappointed. Tough to set up using my tablet, but that was probably my old fashioned tech. The credit only worked on the button. I had Kleenex & Dettol ones, but found the buttons were not only brand specific, but product specific too. Might have changed now, but the buttons wouldn't work across the whole range, and the products that could be purchased using the buttons weren't usually the best value for money. I had to wait nearly a year before using my Kleenex button, as I refused to waste the free credit buying over priced goods. Wouldn't buy them again. Think there was a loophole to getting the credit expanded, but I never bothered with this.
greenant to holeymoley18
4 Sep 17#25
I had the same experience with the SimpleHuman button. Despite owning two different bins I found their button completely useless. Didnt offer bags for the first and I could only order bags for the second if i was prepared to order a year's supply in one go, defeating the whole idea behind Dash buttons. Naturally I can make both orders on Amazon the normal way, just not with the Dash button. Absolute frustrating waste of time.
Oneday77 to holeymoley18
4 Sep 17#27
Are you disappointed that the prices aren't to good or that it took you a year to use your Kleenex supply? At least your knobs would have been Dettol fresh.
holeymoley18 to Oneday77
4 Sep 17#33
Frustrated that Amazon only seemed to allow dash button purchases on their least cost effective products. Took a year for a good value Kleenex product to become available.
And, look after your own knobs. Don't judge the cleanliness of mine!!
haritori to ST3123
4 Sep 17#37
Just buy an echo and say "Alexa order me some more toilet paper" etc..
puddles9999
4 Sep 17#6
Stupid auto correct can you delete the post
BuzzDuraband to puddles9999
4 Sep 17#7
It's been sorted now bud.
puddles9999 to BuzzDuraband
4 Sep 17#8
Thanks
srp111 to puddles9999
4 Sep 17#10
It would be bullets in the USA :grin:
Josh.Rogan
4 Sep 17#11
Are these still easily hackable as wifi buttons?
PeteW to Josh.Rogan
4 Sep 17#16
Yes.
HSpin to Josh.Rogan
4 Sep 17#17
Believe so. I bought one a while ago and although it was a version 2 button, it was still possible to do so. Have it hooked up to IFTTT at the moment but haven't decided what to use it for.
Musicrab to HSpin
4 Sep 17#20
Replace ** with IFTTT, Raspberry Pi, Smartfone, Various Internet enabled heating controllers etc and I've got a few gadgets I haven't worked out what to use them for...
IFTTT is a free web-based service that people use to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets. An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest.
kg808 to gslgregory
5 Sep 17#49
in layman's terms:
IFTTT = IF This Then That so, IF I press the dash button, Then do That - That can be set to various internet based commands - see website
cigbunt to Josh.Rogan
4 Sep 17#46
Like your thinking... Otherwise it's a waste of time
te721
4 Sep 17#12
Not for me, but a mega
danwel
4 Sep 17#13
can just see the orders flooding in after the kids have pressed it 10 times wondering what the hell it does. And for that reason.....I'm out
androoski to danwel
4 Sep 17#14
They have safeguards against that.
us_agent2012 to danwel
4 Sep 17#44
Just train your kids better.
qwertymz
4 Sep 17#15
I bought the Tassimo button, but the range of products you can actually attach to the button is quite small (for example, you can't add L'Or Latte Macchiato, which is madness).
deany76
4 Sep 17#18
Bought 4 or 5 on UK launch (discounted) never once used as we like a 'deal' on this site and these buttons go against the deal mentality. Avoid.
bollybobinson
4 Sep 17#19
Really! Because ordering is really hard, I know, I'll pay whatever Amazon feels like charging me.
Coooooooooooold
Dejaque2k
4 Sep 17#21
What's the appeal of these things?
Stimpington to Dejaque2k
5 Sep 17#52
Oh, you mean the appeal for the consumer, my mistake.
karen44
4 Sep 17#22
great to use as long as you keep an eye on the price changes, ordered the finish one and pushed my Andrex one as classic toilet roll is £15 for 45 at the moment
buddn07 to karen44
4 Sep 17#38
If you're going onto Amazon anyway, isn't it just as easy to press the "buy with one click" button?
buddn07
4 Sep 17#23
These things are rubbish. Most of the items are cheaper on subscribe and save, which doesn't work with Dash.
I'm a tech guy, and love things like this, but not for the sake of wasting money.
greenant to buddn07
4 Sep 17#26
Exactly. And the Dash buttons don't even have a magnet on them, which would be handy for placement in a kitchen
thedon6915
4 Sep 17#24
Thanks heat added
notavalidaddress
4 Sep 17#28
Got a few Hue bulbs in the kids bedrooms at the moment just working as normal bulbs so will hopefully configure this as an on/off switch - cheaper than a hue switch.
xenophon
4 Sep 17#29
Maybe an odd question, but, WTF are they? :unamused:
DCFC79 to xenophon
4 Sep 17#36
A button that is linked to an item eg plenty Kitchen Roll.
xenophon to DCFC79
4 Sep 17#45
Still none the wiser. But cheers. Before anyone says, yes I'll google it.
DCFC79 to xenophon
4 Sep 17#48
It's so you can make a quick for an item, going by the comments on here it's not that cheap to it this way and it can't be used on different varieties of a product.
Tomhardy7
4 Sep 17#30
Ridiculous
red23
4 Sep 17#31
a new way of being an utterly lazy moron.
David23
4 Sep 17#32
These have flopped hard, especially since the Echo came out. Also who would want to pay their over inflated prices for household items when nearly every supermarket is cheaper for those sorts of things.
thefunkygibbon
4 Sep 17#34
bought a bunch of these last time as wanted to use them for home automation, but found it a ballache to use. the buttons themself if you were to use in a normal circumstance are stupid imo. ended up buying like a years supply of kleenex tissues (which turned out to be xmas themed boxes, which is lovely given that there were like 12 of them). One of the other buttons I had (i cant remember which now) didn't even have any products associated with it, so literally couldn't use it. most of the other stuff to choose from are bulk items. which makes it even less useful as chances are it would be cheaper buying BOGOF in the supermarkets when you need them. all in all, as you can probably tell, not impressed. but i didn't expect to be to be fair.
red23
4 Sep 17#35
some people won't be happy until amazon are actively watching what you eat and drink and keeping tabs on your stock levels of things in the fridge
naturelover
4 Sep 17#39
Used these once to use promotional credit and not since as more expensive than Wilko, B&M, Poundshop etc
uk_lawyer
4 Sep 17#40
Decent for the free credit, but have to confess I've never used either of mine since ordering and using up the credit. I have one stuck above my bin for bin bags and it always gets commented on as being pretty cool.
Reality is less cool though.
fattyuk
4 Sep 17#43
ive got one, its pointless lol
i love amazon to bits and im just glad theyve tested the water with something new,.
Musicrab
5 Sep 17#50
Here's once use (of many) with IFTTT; most of your favourite shopping sites have RSS feeds; you can tell IFTTT to tell you when any of these feeds contain keywords e.g. 55inch TV; until HUKD added "Keyword Alerts" you had to use a custom RSS feed via IFTTT to tell you when new "55inch TV" deals were created.
bamshopper
5 Sep 17#51
Can see the point of the toilet roll one IF it was delivered within minutes! :smile:
Josh.Rogan
6 Sep 17#53
So, i ordered 2 of these to use as IOT buttons and heres my findings ymmv, its early days yet, i may find a better way to do things.
I setup on raspbian with python3, i soon descended into a mess of environments and scapy-for-python3 ports and all sorts of nonsense, for some reason, i don't have wireshark installed so the code on the first answer here was able to give me the mac address: stackoverflow.com/que…ets
Then i took that code and used to to only react when it got the mac address of the dash button.
Its... ok, there is a fair old lag, and i realised that my phone with the amazon app (you need to install this to set up the wifi connection) is full of notifications as i never completed the setup (for obvious reasons, i don't even know what 'Finish' is, but i doubt i need that much of it) - So i will have to go to my router to stop the button from 'calling home'.
So, for 2.50, it would work well as a task-logger or something similar, but for my purpose of play/pausing down rune-audio - i think the lag would make it unusable.
Interested to hear what other people are using them for
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Still considering you effectively get £2.50 to own one, I might be tempted. How does the £5 credit work? Does it go onto your main Amazon account like a normal promotional credit or is it tied to the button only?
If it's the latter I will probably give it a miss as I'd want to be able to use the credit how I want and not be tied to one product...
Was disappointed. Tough to set up using my tablet, but that was probably my old fashioned tech.
The credit only worked on the button. I had Kleenex & Dettol ones, but found the buttons were not only brand specific, but product specific too. Might have changed now, but the buttons wouldn't work across the whole range, and the products that could be purchased using the buttons weren't usually the best value for money. I had to wait nearly a year before using my Kleenex button, as I refused to waste the free credit buying over priced goods. Wouldn't buy them again.
Think there was a loophole to getting the credit expanded, but I never bothered with this.
At least your knobs would have been Dettol fresh.
And, look after your own knobs. Don't judge the cleanliness of mine!!
What is IFTTT?, thanx. :-)
IFTTT is a free web-based service that people use to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets. An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest.
IFTTT = IF This Then That
so, IF I press the dash button, Then do That - That can be set to various internet based commands - see website
Avoid.
Coooooooooooold
Oh, you mean the appeal for the consumer, my mistake.
I'm a tech guy, and love things like this, but not for the sake of wasting money.
One of the other buttons I had (i cant remember which now) didn't even have any products associated with it, so literally couldn't use it.
most of the other stuff to choose from are bulk items. which makes it even less useful as chances are it would be cheaper buying BOGOF in the supermarkets when you need them.
all in all, as you can probably tell, not impressed. but i didn't expect to be to be fair.
Reality is less cool though.
i love amazon to bits and im just glad theyve tested the water with something new,.
I setup on raspbian with python3, i soon descended into a mess of environments and scapy-for-python3 ports and all sorts of nonsense, for some reason, i don't have wireshark installed so the code on the first answer here was able to give me the mac address: stackoverflow.com/que…ets
Then i took that code and used to to only react when it got the mac address of the dash button.
Its... ok, there is a fair old lag, and i realised that my phone with the amazon app (you need to install this to set up the wifi connection) is full of notifications as i never completed the setup (for obvious reasons, i don't even know what 'Finish' is, but i doubt i need that much of it) - So i will have to go to my router to stop the button from 'calling home'.
So, for 2.50, it would work well as a task-logger or something similar, but for my purpose of play/pausing down rune-audio - i think the lag would make it unusable.
Interested to hear what other people are using them for