Wifi Button
Wireless button
The goal is to create a wireless button that can trigger a programmed action.
- 1. Panic button: press -> connect to wifi -> send an email
- 2. Doorbell: press -> send a notification on your phone (like a sms)
- 3. Call to action: press -> notify your pc
Inspiration links
Panic Button - connecting to first strongest open wifi
http://www.instructables.com/id/Emergency-Button/
Smart Button - introducing diode to power on only on press and long press for online set-up
https://www.hackster.io/noelportugal/ifttt-smart-button-e11841
The Button - keep pressed until email sent, introducing the case from led lamp
http://benlo.com/esp8266/esp8266Projects.html
Use cases
- Panic Button! Send instant notifications, SMS messages, emails to friends and relatives.
- Doorbell. When the button is pushed, receive a notification on your phone.
- The Doctor is ready. Or anyone else who needs to inform someone when they are ready.
- Booty Call. When you are in need of that special friend with benefits.
- Connect to Pushbullet to send instant notifications or trigger IFTTT actions.
- Connect to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp, or any other social medium with an API.
- Toggle a light on and off, anywhere in the world.
- Turn on any internet controlled device, wherever it is.
- Open door
- Call a cab
- Find your phone
- Dinner is ready
- Please call me
- Here I am
Already out solutions
- bttn - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bttn#/
- flic - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flic-the-wireless-smart-button#/
Schematics
The ESP used is ESP-12-E, the smaller one: