How to configure an AWS IoT Button
Cloud Video Walk Through – AWS IoT Button
In this video series mastersof.cloud walks through the steps of creating your own ‘personal alarm’ button and details how to configure an AWS IoT Button, join it to your wireless network, connect it to an amazon account, assign it to trigger a Lambda function which finally sends a notification to SNS (SMS message in this example).
Important Points to note
- Take note of your region when you register your button as not all SNS features are available in all regions (SMS capability is not available in AWS SNS in London eu-west-2 for example)
- This configuration differs to the AWS IoT 1-Click system so be sure you have a ‘blue’ AWS IoT Button and not something else.
- The button can only use a 2.4g wifi network
- there are reports of the buttons having a relatively limited lifetime (~2000 clicks, 90 days) so maybe best to program this for something that doesnt need to be clicked every 2 minutes 🙂
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Enjoy!
