Can't get Amazon Dash button working - Hassio dasshio

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Finally managed to get my Dash Button to work :grinning:

Held the button on my Dash Button to get it to Device info as suggested through WiFi.

Was using the wrong address (Too many Kindles and FireSticks):sweat_smile:

Entered the correct MAC Address, but still no joy.
Until … I entered the MAC address WITHOUT using Capitals.

00:x0:00:xx:xx:x0

And
BINGO !!! Cue Happy Dance !!!
Now have 5 Buttons working

I don’t know why, but Capitals in my case don’t work.

Thanks guys ! I would have been plugging the wrong MAC Address in for days without your help.

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42

Glad you’ve had partial success, on the right track now :+1:

Wouldn’t have thought it was too slow but you could possibly check by turning off every addon bar dasshio and see if that helps.

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43

Whelp, I think I’ve gotten as far as my skill set currently allows. I got all set up on an rpi 3 and a new button. I got one response from the old button and some inconsistent responses from the new button.

44

You don’t just keep pressing over and over and expecting a reaction do you? HA only picks up when the button joins the network so you need to wait for it to turn itself off again, about 10 seconds I believe.

45

No, I’ve been trying to space them out at different intervals. Nothing working enough.

46

The Hassio add-on works really well. I can however confirm the issue with “double presses”. Using a dash button for “toggle” (toggle the lights in the bedroom for example) doesn’t meet the WAF for now :wink:

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47

Yes, this is a known issue. I’ve done some modifications to solve the problem but without success. I will try to fix it this week in order to meet WAF :smiley:

Thanks for testing dasshio!

48

Any updates on this? Currently toggle is unusable due to 2x firing of actions.

49

Assume you’ve seen this…

50

Does dasshio support timeout?

Update: Looks like Dasshio does not support timeout. I swapped over to Dasher and everything works now! Thanks!

51

Is that using a timeout?

52

Yes, Dasher with timeout

53

Glad you found the link useful :slight_smile:

55

Hi @mattscchs and @KKlitgaard,

Toggle is now working thanks to the new version of Dasshio.
Stay tuned by this thread: Dasshio - Amazon Dash Buttons Hass.io add-on

Check out the new version please! New updates coming soon

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56

Just installed thjis addon and have the below error

{
  "timeout": 20,
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "dash",
      "address": "50:f5:da:xxxxxx",
      "url": "http://192.168.1.1:8123/api/services/switch/toggle",
      "headers": "{\"authorization\": \"password"}",
      "body": "{\"entity_id\": \"switch.door\"}"
    }
  ]
}

2018-09-22 16:55:42,159 | INFO | Reading config file: /data/options.json
2018-09-22 16:55:42,160 | INFO | Starting sniffing…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/dasshio.py”, line 27, in arp_display
mac = pkt[ARP].hwsrc.lower()
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/scapy/packet.py”, line 966, in getitem
raise IndexError(“Layer [%s] not found” % lname)
IndexError: Layer [ARP] not found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/dasshio.py”, line 149, in
count=0)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/scapy/sendrecv.py”, line 783, in sniff
if stop_filter and stop_filter§:
File “/dasshio.py”, line 29, in arp_display
mac = pkt[Ether].src.lower()
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/scapy/packet.py”, line 966, in getitem
raise IndexError(“Layer [%s] not found” % lname)
IndexError: Layer [Ether] not found

57

I did not have the issue you’re talking about, but I would first check that you have installed the latest version of Dasshio. Also, what version of Home Assistant are you running? There’s been major changes to authentications and Hass.io add-ons can no longer pass along the API password. Dasshio was updated to fix this.

This is obvious, but is your Home Assistant IP address really 192.168.1.1? That is normally your router’s IP address.

Also, maybe you can change your Dasshio configuration to avoid doing a HTTP request and avoid dealing with tokens. My Dasshio config is below if you need an example. I’m running Home Assistant 0.77.3 and Dasshio 0.31.

{
  "timeout": 1,
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Doubleshot",
      "address": "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX",
      "domain": "script",
      "service": "turn_on",
      "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"script.announce\"}"
    }
  ]
}
58

I have 0.78.1 and DASSHIO 0.3.1 yes 192.168.1.1 is the correct IP address of HASS

I changed to your configuration

{
  "timeout": 5,
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Vergnano",
      "address": "50:F5:DA:xxxx1",
      "domain": "switch",
      "service": "turn_on",
      "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"switch.door\"}"
    }
  ]
}

and receive this

2018-09-23 12:10:04,171 | INFO | Reading config file: /data/options.json
2018-09-23 12:10:04,172 | INFO | Starting sniffing…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/dasshio.py”, line 27, in arp_display
mac = pkt[ARP].hwsrc.lower()
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/scapy/packet.py”, line 966, in getitem
raise IndexError(“Layer [%s] not found” % lname)
IndexError: Layer [ARP] not found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/dasshio.py”, line 149, in
count=0)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/scapy/sendrecv.py”, line 783, in sniff
if stop_filter and stop_filter§:
File “/dasshio.py”, line 29, in arp_display
mac = pkt[Ether].src.lower()
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/scapy/packet.py”, line 966, in getitem
raise IndexError(“Layer [%s] not found” % lname)
IndexError: Layer [Ether] not found

59

the DASH is connected to the network, I see it in the assigned static addresses

60

Do you mean you see it connect for a few seconds and then disconnect? The button doesn’t stay connected.

61

Could be, I don’t know how to check if it disconnects (I think my DHCP server releases it after some time). For sure the DASH buitton has WiFI coverage (is not far from router wifi).

EDIT I tried to enable the notification in Amazon app, and each time I press the Dash I receive Amazon notification (to continue configuration), so I think is connected