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Our Puck (https://flair.co/products/puck) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.

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Do you have a mailing list where we can sign up to know when you open it up? I almost immediately bought this, but thought "I should read up on the API first..." Reading the FAQ [https://flair.co/pages/faq] I see: "Can I write apps for Puck? Not yet. But soon."

I'll buy it the moment it lets me program it to suit my needs. It looks incredibly awesome and off the bat I can think of 4 places I'd love to use it (but none of them, unfortunately, have anything to do with heating or cooling).

I wish I saw this sooner (HN news needs notifications!). You can sign up for our email list to start and you can also start a thread on our forum (https://forum.flair.co). Excited to hear all the cool things that you want to use it for fyi :)

Is there at least one button in addition to the knob? How do I get my hands on a dev kit? I have been casually looking for an internet-connected dial + button + display for a long time. I have lots of different productivity uses I want to try out. Badly.

Edit: I see now that it does indeed have "click" listed in the specs.

Yes - there is a click and rotate. No dev kits just yet - we are getting close to shipping the first set of preorders and pretty heads down on that but it has a nice bootloader so you will be able to reprogram it over the air as well as via some exposed pads on the back. Would love to hear some of the things you are looking to use it for!

Time tracking, virtual desktop/spaces navigation, audio controls... scaling server resources? I don't know, there are a lot of things you can do with rotate + click + a little screen to let you know what you're doing.

At 3x the price (or 12x the price of a hacked button), it's not really in the same market as the dash button though

You'll hit breakeven on the price at 2,001 presses and from that point on it'll be cheaper.

No, it sounds way better:

Puck Specifications

Communication

=============

Bluetooth Beacon for occupant awareness

Wifi (Puck can act as its own gateway, no hub needed)

915MHz Radio for device to device communication

Infrared (IR) record/playback

Sensors

=======

Temperature

Humidity

Pressure

Ambient Light

Interaction

===========

Rotation and Click <---- Rotation is not on Amazons

E-ink Display <---- added

agreed :)

This looks fantastic!

> So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device

Indeed, the website and esp. the pre-ordering process lets one think it's really dedicated to that use...

Why not have another page with a more general positioning, this could be used for anything!

Yeah - tell that to our investors :p (j/k I love them but they felt it important to keep focused on the marketing for a while longer).

Definitely need to add some marketing pages though, one for 'generic knob' examples, and then I actually think it would be best to split up the minisplit/window ac bits from central heating and cooling.

That was one really nifty device.

Your site mentions device to device comms. Is this user programmable?

Also display only shows temp. Are there other options?

You will be able to reflash all three radios on the device (although you will need to keep the wifi's bootloader for the foreseeable future). Otherwise use should be able to swap out the bluetooth image and the subgigahertz stack.

The UI is reprogrammable without touching code also with 'microapps'. You could think of them as super lightweight shortcuts for adjusting things. You can see some examples on our twitter feed: https://twitter.com/flair_co

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