IOT 'Easy Button' Improves Your Relationship
Loved ones need our attention and appreciation.
Step 1: Open an AWS account
Step 2: Get AWS IOT Button Dev App
Step 3: Configure your IOT Button
Step 4: Select your Lambda Function
Step 5: Replace Lambda Function
Step 6: Test IOT Button
Step 7: Install the SMS Forwarder App
Step 8: Configure the SMS Forwarder App to only forward texts coming from the IOT Button
Step 9: Confirm everything is working OK
Step 10: Enjoy your improved relationship!

Published February 7, 2018 © GPL3+

AWS IOT 'Easy Button' Enhances Your Relationship!

Busy? You can just press the IOT 'Easy Button' on your desk and your loved one will get a 'random' affectionate text sent from your phone.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Button

Software apps and online services

Amazon Web Services AWS IoT

Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda

Amazon Web Services AWS SNS

Android SMS Forwarder

Story

IOT 'Easy Button' Improves Your Relationship

Loved ones need our attention and appreciation.

No matter how busy you are, you can just quickly press the IOT 'Easy Button' on your desk and your loved one will get a nice text coming from your phone. Not only that, but on their phone it is indistinguishable from a text you personally typed out in the middle of your busy day! And more than that, if they reply it will show up on your phone as part of a normal text conversation.

So they won't see the same text every time, the texts are randomly selected from the list of messages you specified. The IOT 'Easy Button' texts your phone with the message before it is forwarded to their phone.

This project is currently set up with 3 types of messages:

Short click: Thinking of you... type messages...

Double click: Encouraging type messages...

Long click: Congratulatory type messages...

I have set up the text messages in the example code to text my wife.You can easily edit the text in the code to change the content or type of messages to suit your own personal tastes. You can use this to improve your relationship with your wife, husband, child, parent etc.

Other Notes:

Only the IOT message will be forwarded to your loved one's phone. No other texts will be forwarded

No apps need be installed on your loved one's phone.

This project was built on an Android Phone but instructions are also generally applicable to iPhone.

Step 1: Open an AWS account

Amazon Web Services

We are going to use our account to set up the sequence below using the AWS IOT Button Dev App

Step 2: Get AWS IOT Button Dev App

Step 3: Configure your IOT Button

Step 4: Select your Lambda Function

Choose SMS (nodejs) as your Lambda Function

Enter your own phone number as the number to send to.

Step 5: Replace Lambda Function

Log on to your AWS Console. Find and open up Lambda. You should see a newly created lambda function named "iotbutton_" followed by your button's device serial number (DSN). This is the Lambda function auto-generated by the IOT Button Dev App.

Open the function, and replace the function with the function shown in the code window here. Make sure to replace the constant "PHONE_NUMBER" with your own phone number.

There are 3 types of button actions.

Click: Send 'Thinking of you' type texts

Double-click: Send encouraging texts

Long click ( > 1.5 seconds): Send congratulatory texts

You can easily edit the type and content of these texts to suit your own personal tastes.

Step 6: Test IOT Button

When you press the IOT Button now, a text should be sent to your phone.

Make a note of the number it is sent from ( 44779 in example below )

Step 7: Install the SMS Forwarder App

Now you can successfully receive a text from the IOT button to your own phone, the next step is to forward the your loved one's phone.

Step 8: Configure the SMS Forwarder App to only forward texts coming from the IOT Button

Set up a new profile and you will be shown a screen where you can enter the necessary information for you IOT message forwarder.

Receive From

To only forward texts from the IOT button, enter the IOT number you made a note of in Step 5. ( In our example 44779 ).

( Note: The first icon on the right accesses your contacts and you may need to enter the IOT number in your contacts before you can complete this step )

Forward To

There is a dummy number below. Use the Contacts icon to select your loved one's phone number.

Ensure your forwarder is ACTIVE

Step 9: Confirm everything is working OK

Press the IOT 'Easy Button'

You should receive a text and see it forwarded to your loved one.

If not go back over the steps and confirm:

Your phone is receiving the text from the IOT button

Your SMS Forwarder is set up correctly

Step 10: Enjoy your improved relationship!

IOT "Easy Button' Lambda Function

/**
 * This is a sample Lambda function that sends an SMS on click of a
 * button. It needs one permission sns:Publish. The following policy
 * allows SNS publish to SMS but not topics or endpoints.
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sns:Publish"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Deny",
            "Action": [
                "sns:Publish"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:sns:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
 *
 * The following JSON template shows what is sent as the payload:
{
    "serialNumber": "GXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "batteryVoltage": "xxmV",
    "clickType": "SINGLE" | "DOUBLE" | "LONG"
}
 *
 * A "LONG" clickType is sent if the first press lasts longer than 1.5 seconds.
 * "SINGLE" and "DOUBLE" clickType payloads are sent for short clicks.
 *
 * For more documentation, follow the link below.
 * http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-lambda-rule.html
 */

'use strict';

const AWS = require('aws-sdk');

const SNS = new AWS.SNS({ apiVersion: '2010-03-31' });
const PHONE_NUMBER = '16021234567'; // change it to your phone number

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
    // one of these messages will be randomly selected and sent on short click
    const inMyThoughtsMessages = [
                          'Thinking of you...x',
                          'Hope youre having a great day...x',
                          'Looking forward to seeing you later...x',
                          'Theres something about you...x',
                          'How lucky I am...x'
                        ];
    // one of these messages will be randomly selected and sent on double click
    const encourageMessages = [
                          'You go for it!',
                          'Good luck!',
                          'Remember - youre the greatest!',
                          'Do it anyway!',
                          'Im cheering for you!'
                        ];
    // one of these messages will be randomly selected and sent on long click
    const congratsMessages = [
                          'Way to go!',
                          'Congrats!',
                          'You did it!',
                          'HUGE success!',
                          'Well done you!'
                        ];
    
    console.log('Received event:', event);

    console.log(`Sending SMS to ${PHONE_NUMBER}`);
    
    //uses randomizer to select one of the predefined messages
    var singleClick = inMyThoughtsMessages[Math.floor(Math.random()*inMyThoughtsMessages.length)];
    var doubleClick = encourageMessages[Math.floor(Math.random()*encourageMessages.length)];
    var longClick = congratsMessages[Math.floor(Math.random()*congratsMessages.length)];
    var randomMessage = singleClick;
    
    if(event.clickType == "DOUBLE"){
        randomMessage = doubleClick;
    }
    if(event.clickType == "LONG"){
        randomMessage = longClick;
    }
    
    const params = {
        PhoneNumber: PHONE_NUMBER,
        Message: randomMessage,
    };
    // result will go to function callback
    SNS.publish(params, callback);
};

Credits

John Keenan

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-m-keenan-0135b/

Thanks to Winston Frick.

AWS IOT 'Easy Button' Enhances Your Relationship!