Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things

Re:Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things by throwawayfinal on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:00PM (#16321146)

People don't love XMPP for a lot of reasons. Some of those reasons apply to IoT. Some reasons, like having to maintain state, are IoT specific.

Besides that, bandwidth and code complexity is a very real concern. MQTT, a lightweight message passing protocol, has become the de facto default.

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Re:Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things by fmntf on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:09PM (#16321199)

So true. We switched to MQTT (abandoning websockets and other protocols) to save (a lot of) network bandwidth.

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Re:Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things by ramzyo on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:16PM (#16322210)

Do you mean you were using MQTT over websockets before, and you've since moved to pure MQTT (still over TCP), without websockets in between? Are you sure websockets were the cause of your network bandwidth issues?

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Re:Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things by fmntf on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:22AM (#16322810)

I'm on a different team, AFAIK we where using simple JSON payloads on websocket connections. Dropping websockets and switching to MQTT saved a lot of bandwidth. I can ask for precise numbers or details if you wish.

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Re:Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things by solarkraft on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:16AM (#16323698)

I'm interested.

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Re:Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things by samstave on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:28PM (#16321828)

Please expand

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