Amazon abandoned Dash Buttons

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I went to add a new dash button to my home network today, and found out that I can no longer set up new dash buttons through the Amazon Shopping app on my phone. I tried downgrading the Amazon Shopping app to a version from a year ago, and got the same result. Amazon has removed the ability to activate new Amazon Dash buttons. I found out that they discontinued Amazon Dash about a month ago or so.

Does anyone know of a way to activate a button without using Amazon’s app? I have about 30 of them around my house that will work just fine for the foreseeable future, but i have about 5-6 that haven’t been set up, and i currently have no way of configuring them to my network. Tried doing a google search, and reddit search, with no luck.

[fffonion]

I was running into the same issue and google leads me here : ). Then I found a useful blog https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown-jk29lp/ that works for my JK29LP.

So I made a script https://gist.github.com/fffonion/d4960503ff6782640286163d47a30080. All you need to do is long press the dash button and connect to the hotspot Amazon ConfigureMe.

Emm but it seems only the first press after setup is working, might be missing something here.

[sidoh]

I found a way to complete the setup process without the button needing to phone home. It requires that the button is running an older version of firmware that is vulnerable to an exploit in the HFA audio setup process. If your button has received an OTA update at any point, it’s probably been patched.

Writeup is here: https://blog.christophermullins.com/2019/12/20/rescue-your-amazon-dash-buttons/

happy hacking everyone!