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Re:Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in ads (2... by ohyoutravel on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:58PM (#34404801)
Did you use the buttons for these things?
Re:Why Alexa won't wake up when she hears her name in ads (2... by Rychard on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:19PM (#34405012)
I had a large number of the dash buttons (likely two dozen or so), which I always found to be extremely convenient. When I was running out of some product, a simple press of the button was far more convenient for me than remembering to pick it up the next time I went to the store.

When they discontinued the service, I put all the buttons in a cabinet drawer hoping that they could be "jailbroken" to act as an arbitrary IoT button in the future (like the official Amazon IoT button[1]), but as far as I can tell this never came to fruition (barring a few exceptions) and they're basically doomed to e-waste.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/