Hacking the Amazon Dash Button To Work With IFTTT

Jeff MacDonald
5 min readDec 14, 2015

Update 1.10.16:
This week
Jon Michaels wrote to me and told me that he was having trouble setting up this Amazon Dash hack. We emailed back and forth trying to troubleshoot his situation and Jon ended up solving his own issue. He’s done a fantastic write up of the problem he was having here. Check it out if you are also having issues with socketwatcher or anything else that might be broken.

I wanted to build something really cool with the Amazon Dash Button, and having it trigger actions on IFTTT seemed like a pretty easy and useful task. Luckily I found a bunch of folks already working on the task. I decided to do a quick write up to help anyone who might be trying to do the same.

Full credit to Jon Maddox for the Dasher code, he rocks!

Don’t tear up yours just yet, but here’s what’s inside from Adafruit.

Get A Dash Button

The most obvious step, you’ll need a button, they cost $5, and it doesn’t matter which one you get because you won’t be setting it up to make orders.

Something that’s super interesting is that Amazon does make a button for hacking, but it only works for their cloud services and it doesn’t appear to be…

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