Using the info from Ted Benson's Medium post I was able to sniff my network packets for the dash button press. Instead of writing to a google spreadsheet my python script will make an API request to turn on or off my light.

There were 2 ways of doing this:

1. Have the python script make the call directly to the Hue hub via Hue API
2. Have it make a request to a middleman application

I chose option 2 because I was already planning on using openHab to control a few things around the house. Luckily openHab has a REST API built in.

Hardware:

• Amazon Dash button
• Raspberry Pi
• Wireless adapter for the Pi
• Hue lights
• Hue hub

Software:

• raspbian
  • openHab
  • python
  • scapy
  • requests
  
  

More to come soon...