
One thing (which is not mandatory) is to use an external Wifi antenna for the Onion Omega2+ board. If you want to know more about the Onion Omega2+ board, here is a great getting started tutorial. #javascript #tutorial #node #googleassistantįor this setup, things are going to be way easier, since we only have 2 wires to connect (solder, coming from the button's switch and going into the Omega2+ pins. And I use them in each one of my IoT projects, such as my "voice-controlled standing desk" hack. I actually do have a lot of them (you know, just in case). I am a big fan of the Onion Omega boards.

Of course, you can have any other button, just make sure it has a latching switch (it's more realistic this way!) but feel free to take any other kind of switches. I stumbled upon this cool button and decided to buy in case someday I needed to build something with it. Luckily, I had already ordered on Amazon an "emergency button" a couple of weeks ago. To begin with, I needed an actual physical button (this seems obvious right?).

Recently I had an idea that I wanted to explore: what if I could build a real button and make it trigger ANYTHING using simply an URL (webhook)? In this very quick post, I will walk you through how I managed to build this project in one evening:
