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WebThings Gateway Goes Global

51 points| i_am_not_elon | 6 years ago |hacks.mozilla.org | reply

9 comments

[+] __sy__|6 years ago|reply

My understanding is that Ben Francis (one of the main individuals behind this effort) is no-longer at Mozilla given the recent layoffs/restructuring. Any idea on how this impacts this project long-term?

[+] jannes|6 years ago|reply

As far as I understand, WebThings Gateway is sort of like Home Assistant.

Why would I use WebThings when Home Assistant already has a much bigger community?

[+] amanzi|6 years ago|reply

I've become a bit disillusioned with HA recently and am keen to give this a try. Competition/options are always good.

[+] okhuman|6 years ago|reply

WebThings Gateway is the main implementation of "Web Thing API" https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/ - their push for using HTTP for IoT devices and use cases. They maintain a lot of IoT "adapters" with an impressive/modern codebase too.