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by kgiori 6y ago
Disclosure: I worked at Mozilla with the core WebThings dev team and still collaborate with devs on this project. I don't do devel on the gateway, but I create "web things" (IoT devices) that connect to it. I use the gateway
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by kgiori 6y ago
I love it! Superb tool. Simple and elegant. Not complex and frustrating.
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3 points by kgiori 6y ago|2 comments
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by kgiori 6y ago
Excellent summary. The "oh wow this feels different" aspect of MicroBlocks comes after you try it. It makes programming microcontrollers as interactive and hands-on as building electrical circuits from discrete components. Your ch
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by kgiori 7y ago
https://iot.mozilla.org -- can easily install the WebThings Gateway on a Raspberry Pi, or in a Docker container, or CLI install to a Linux box. It runs locally in your home. No cloud account, no cloud data center dependency, com
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by kgiori 7y ago
The WebThings Gateway does support OpenWrt if the router is beefy enough (decent app processor, RAM, and flash). Most cheap routers wouldn't work. If you are a savvy OpenWrt user see: https://github.com/openwrt/pac
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by kgiori 7y ago
It is indeed. Mozilla's WebThings Gateway does everything locally, by default. You and your home are the center of its universe. The add-on system not only enables lots of smart home device interop, but also lets you bring in other web
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by kgiori 7y ago
Mozilla hosts an https tunnel for subdomains that match YOUR-subdomain.mozilla-iot.org where users choose a unique subdomain and a cert for it is auto-installed (using LetsEncrypt) onto the RPi or Turris Omnia during first time setup. In th
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by kgiori 7y ago
> for easy off site access Exactly. The WebThings Gateway on an RPi is behind a firewall. How to access it? Mozilla makes it easy for users to securely access their gateway when remote, by setting up a tunneling service for the .mozil
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by kgiori 7y ago
Your desire not to have to admininster OpenWrt yourself is legit. I don't either. The Mozilla WebThings Gateway integration work is being done by Mozilla so that they can offer the result to OEMs who would sell a product with it alread
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by kgiori 7y ago
Try either the e-mail sender add-on or the twilio add-on, then create rules that notify you via one of those methods. Camera integration is tricky, mostly due to the lack of standards around data streams and extra sensors/actuators, de
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by kgiori 7y ago
Several good points. Only one aspect made me laugh. Even if I can "opkg install <pkg_name>" to run the Mozilla WebThings Gateway, I'm lazy. I'd rather buy a box that maintains my privacy and is updated periodical
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by kgiori 7y ago
the W3C Web of Things framework is agnostic to use cases and devices. Mozilla's WebThings framework can work in medical, industrial, etc. It's just that Mozilla's focus is to put people first. (Plus it's easiest to invit
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by kgiori 7y ago
That's one of the targets for OpenWrt support, yes.
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by kgiori 7y ago
the WebThings gateway is an opportunity for Mozilla to help protect privacy and security, not copy the approach of industry silo's where devices connect to the cloud. your gateway data stays local.