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pinpon
pinpon is a silly little service that implements an
Internet-enabled doorbell in Haskell, using
Amazon Simple Notification Service to notify
subscribers that the button has been pushed. Effectively, it's a
simple REST service which, when POSTed to, will send a notification
to an SNS topic. You can then build a client application which
subscribes to that topic and notifies the user when the doorbell has
been pressed. No such client application is included in the pinpon
package, but an iOS app may be made available at some point in the
future.
The package provides a pinpon-gpio executable, intended for use on
Linux systems with GPIO functionality. When the specified GPIO pin is
triggered (e.g., via a momentary switch such as
this one),
pinpon-gpio will POST a notification to the specified pinpon
server.
Why not simply build the Amazon SNS functionality into the
pinpon-gpio executable and eliminate the pinpon REST service?
Chiefly because the host system running the pinpon-gpio executable
may be particularly vulnerable to physical attacks (after all, it is
presumably hooked up to a doorbell button that is exposed in a public
space). I did not feel comfortable storing my Amazon AWS credentials
on such a device, nor even allowing such a device to communicate
directly with the public Internet. By proxying the AWS access via a
more physically secure host running the pinpon server on my internal
network, I can better protect my AWS credentials and limit network
access on the GPIO device to just the pinpon service.