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my first iot device

10:44 Monday 16 January 2017 JST

I'm considering my first IoT device, or ToI, Thing of Internet.

To add a bit of information to my journal, I'm considering getting a programmable Amazon Button which I plan to keep by my bed. Click once in the morning when I wake up and it will fire off some code on AWS to write a journal entry "I woke up." Doublieclick at night and it will write a journal entry like "zzzz"

pros:

• get experience playing with Lambda or some new AWS serverless tech
• keep track of my wake / sleep hours

cons:

• open a security hole in my journaling process

RFC

I'm not tied to using an Amazon Button (wich apparently doesn't ship to Japan anyway), and I wonder if there are some other downside(s) I'm missing.

I saw a lot of requests for IFTTT to ping people when commits are made to git, but I wonder if IFTTT can commit to git. Hmm apparently not https://ifttt.com/github

Hmm might be easiest to make a webpage with a toggle button on it that kicks off a request that does whatever I want.