Mozilla WebThings IoT Platform Spun Out As an Independent Open Source Project

tola writes: Following a round of layoffs at Mozilla, their WebThings IoT platform is being spun out as an independent open source project by former employees, with a new commercial sponsor. WebThings is an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web, built on W3C Web of Things standards. It includes WebThings Gateway which is a software distribution for smart home gateways focused on privacy, security and interoperability and the WebThings Framework which is a collection of re-usable software components to help developers build their own web things. The project will be renamed from "Mozilla WebThings" to "WebThings" and will move to a new home at https://webthings.io/ Users will be able to opt-in to receive software updates from the new community run update servers and be offered the opportunity to transition to a replacement remote tunnelling service before Mozilla servers are shut down at the end of the year.

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[AncalagonTotof]

Can't help but think to https://xkcd.com/927 [xkcd.com] each time there's a talk about IoT.

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[cordovaCon83]

If game theory has taught us anything, it's that only the 15th standard will survive, and it will be universally hated.

There's an upside to this

[VicVegas]

Sweet, now I can run NoScript on my light bulb!

This project rocks

[mrwireless]

I think this project deserves more attention, as it's the most user friendly open source home control software I know.

Somehow a project like Home Assistant is praised too high heaven, while still requiring users to make edits to text files.