Amazon Dash button Not working with Home Assistant Dasshio Addon

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Hi,
Suddenly I observe my Dash button Not working after updating Home Assistant 0.102.2
My Dasshio version is 0.3.8
My Dasshio Home Assitant Config is as follows:

{
  "timeout": 20,
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Gillette",
      "address": "XX:E1:XX:XX:XX:XX",
      "domain": "switch",
      "service": "toggle",
      "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"switch.all_light\"}"
    }
  ]
}

Please help to resolve

2

Help us help you. Post some details.

What have you done to troubleshoot?

Anything in the addon log?

ANything in the HA log?

What is the button doing? What sequence of lights?

3

What have you done to troubleshoot?
A: I dont understand whats going on as i don’t see anything wrong in the logs

Log

2019-11-29 09:41:38,954 | INFO | Reading config file: /data/options.json 2019-11-29 09:41:38,956 | INFO | Starting... 2019-11-29 09:41:38,957 | INFO | Starting sniffing...

What is the button doing? What sequence of lights?
A: Pressing the Amazon dash butto should light Toggles (ON/OFF) the LED strip in my living room.

4

If that’s your logs, it isn’t seeing the button press at all.

As for the sequence of lights. What is the light on the actual button doing when pressed? Is it flashing red, white, blue? How many times and for how long?

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5

I see noting in log but
On the dash I see a blue LED light up for 25 seconds then a orange LED for 5 Sec & blink of orange LED for 2 times .

No change in logs

6

I think your dash isn’t setup correctly.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201820290

7

All of my dash buttons, which used to function flawlessly, after upgrading to HA .100.x do exactly the same, blue led for 25 secs then red led long flash followed by red blinking led.
Methinks dash button is dead. Long live the dash button.
(it was fun but mine are now in the trash)

8

Amazon deactivated all the Dash buttons as of December 31st, 2019. Mine worked once each a few days ago, and apparently once they connected to the Amazon servers, they downloaded the “update” and now won’t connect to the WiFi network anymore (which is what the long blue, then red LED business means). So we are out of luck :slightly_frowning_face: It was fun while it lasted! I’m replacing mine with Xiaomi zigbee buttons.

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As far as i have heard, after Amazon dicontinued them, you should have blocked communication to or from Amazon servers, on your router. Then they wouldn’t have gotten the update and you could keep on using them. I haven’t heard of a workaround after the device has the update.

UPDATE: https://blog.christophermullins.com/2019/12/20/rescue-your-amazon-dash-buttons

10

I worked to setup Dasshio on my Home Assistant recently and it worked for a couple minutes until I tried to update or modify my home assistant in any way, then it would crash, not allow me to connect via the front end, and I’d have to reload a snapshot through cmd. I did this several times and was a struggle each time with the snapshot not loading correctly.

I’m almost positive the dash button was setup correctly because for those couple minutes I was able to trigger my input boolean off and on a couple times. Rob from The Hook Up commented that “I don’t use the wifi interface on my pi. I’m guessing it uses the wifi to sniff for the ARP packet of the dash button. If this is the case you would not be able to use dashio with a wireless pi.” Could this be my problem? I am using a wireless pi.

11

Hi, how did you add dashio I cannot add it as an addon over the add-on-menĂĽ because hass.io says, that an attribute config["arc"] is missing. Any ideas?

12

don’t know why, but it seems to work now …