Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0
by ficklepickle on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:04PM
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I tried it when I first heard of it about a year ago.
It's a user-friendly IOT ecosystem. It uses a pi so you can use ZigBee etc adapters.
They also have their own open protocol. It is WiFi based, I wrote/made a simple webthing, I quite liked the experience.
At that time, it was not reliable enough. I evaluated it for a business critical timer (turn on 8am, turn off 5pm), really simple. Unfortunately, it frequently failed to turn on/off at the scheduled time. Cron and curl would have been more reliable.
I imagine it has improved by now. I should give it another whirl.
Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0
by cptskippy on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:54PM
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I've been using it reliably for about 4 months now to control some blinds. At first I had issues but it boiled down to reception issues. After reorienting the antennas on the blinds and moving the Gateway outside of a SME, everything works fine.
It's a user-friendly IOT ecosystem. It uses a pi so you can use ZigBee etc adapters.
They also have their own open protocol. It is WiFi based, I wrote/made a simple webthing, I quite liked the experience.
At that time, it was not reliable enough. I evaluated it for a business critical timer (turn on 8am, turn off 5pm), really simple. Unfortunately, it frequently failed to turn on/off at the scheduled time. Cron and curl would have been more reliable.
I imagine it has improved by now. I should give it another whirl.