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Using the Amazon Dash Button to trigger actions on Pimoroni's Mote kit

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dash-mote

Using the Amazon Dash Button to trigger actions on Pimoroni's Mote kit, in this very simple example pushing the Dash Button once will turn the Mote sticks red, and pushing the Dash Button again will turn them off.

Requirements

In order to use this script, you will need to install a few dependencies. The simplest way is to install the Mote library from Pimoroni by running the following in your terminal:

curl https://get.pimoroni.com/motephat | bash

You will also need to install the requests Python module:

sudo pip install requests

Or if that fails, then you'll probably need to install the Python PIP module first:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Find your Amazon Dash Button's MAC address

You will need to add your Amazon Dash Button's MAC address to the dash-mote.py script for this to work. Details on how to find out your MAC address can be found here and then replace the following in the script:

# Set your Dash Button's MAC address below
DASH_BUTTON_MAC = 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'

Replace the xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx with your MAC address, but ensure it is all lower case!

Running

Once installed, you can run this by simply changing into the directory and executing as follows:

cd dash-mote
sudo python dash-mote.py

This will then run the script - push the Amazon Dash Button and see the Mote sticks light up red; push again to turn them off.