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dekuNukem / Amazon_Dash_Button

Components and pinouts of Amazon Dash Button
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why the heck it has microphone??? #1

Closed ramrattle closed 9 years ago

ramrattle commented 9 years ago

any idea why it has microphone, I thought its just a button.

dekuNukem commented 9 years ago

On iPhone it uses the microphone for the initial set-up. The phone would play ultrasound encoded with data, and microphone on the dash button hears it, decodes it and set up the network.

ramrattle commented 9 years ago

uh!!! thats one ugly way for pairing!! thanks for the reply..awesome write up.