@WebThingsIO

An open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. Formerly Mozilla WebThings. @WebThingsIO@mastodon.social

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Joined January 2018
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WebThings is an open source project maintained by a community of volunteers. Get involved at webthings.io/community/

WebThings Community

WebThings is an open source project maintained by a community of volunteers

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📣 The webthings.io domain will be undergoing maintenance over the next five days. We are not expecting any downtime, but it is possible the remote access to your gateway may drop briefly. It will continue to operate as normal.
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This maintenance has now been completed ahead of schedule, and everything should be operating as normal.
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Ben Francis@bfrancisMar 5
New blog post: Putting the Web back in the Web of Things tola.me.uk/blog/2026/03/05/p… We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. 🧵

Putting the Web back in the Web of Things

We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. I this blog post I provide a deep-dive retrospective into the last...

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Thank you to Amazon for sponsoring the WebThings project through the AWS Open Source Credits Program for a further year. This helps pay for critical back end infrastructure the WebThings community relies on.
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New blog post: Announcing WebThings Gateway 2.0 webthings.io/blog/2025/12/19… Build your own smart home hub. The WebThings community are very excited to announce the WebThings Gateway 2.0 release, with a new groups feature and @W3C_WoT standards support.

Announcing WebThings Gateway 2.0

The WebThings community are very excited to announce the WebThings Gateway 2.0 release.

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Ben Francis@bfrancis6 Nov 2025
New blog post: Introducing the Web Thing Protocol tola.me.uk/blog/2025/11/06/i… A dedicated real-time protocol for the Web of Things.

Introducing the Web Thing Protocol

I am excited to share that the W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group has published the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket sub-protocol, a dedicated real-time protocol for the Web of...

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Thank you to @Docker for another year of sponsorship through the Docker-sponsored Open Source Program. This helps the WebThings community develop and distribute WebThings Gateway and supports our back end infrastructure and toolchains.
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Robert Winkler from Deutsche Telekom demonstrates an LLM-based agent controlling smart home devices described using W3C Thing Descriptions by a pre-release version of WebThings Gateway 2.0. youtu.be/gcpHYtqTBbA?si=SaWy…

Meetup 25: An Introduction to Eclipse LMOS

In this special session, we have three community groups joining for...

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The Open Home Foundation Matter Server used by Home Assistant now has Matter certification, which is great news for any open source software project using the #Matter smart home protocol home-assistant.io/blog/2025/…

Home Assistant officially Matters

Home Assistant gains certification, but also a powerful tool for any open source project

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Ben Francis@bfrancis3 Feb 2025
New blog post: My Vision of a Smart Building Operating System. #SmartBuildings #WebApps #WebOfThings tola.me.uk/blog/2025/02/03/m…

My Vision of a Smart Building Operating System

A whole building operating system, built on web technologies, which weaves together every sensor, actuator and human-computer interface in a building into a seamless user experience.

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Did you know you can also find us on Mastodon? mastodon.social/@WebThingsIO

WebThings (@[email protected])

29 Posts, 15 Following, 20 Followers · An open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. Formerly Mozilla WebThings.

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We are delighted to share that Amazon will be sponsoring the WebThings project through the @AWSOpen Open Source Credits Program for a further year. This helps pay for critical back end infrastructure the WebThings community relies on.
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📣 There will be a brief outage of the webthings.io remote access service today for essential maintenance.

WebThings

Building the Web of Things

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This work has been completed now and everything should be back up and running. If you experience any issues, please let us know.
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I think it's interesting that even with the existence of Matter, Google see the need for Google Home APIs to provide a "single unified interface to manage and control" devices in the home developers.googleblog.com/en…

Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud

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Call for Contributions: Web Thing Protocol WebSocket Sub-protocol #WoT #IoT #webstandards w3.org/community/web-thing-p…
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Welcoming Benno Waldhauer's C++ implementation of the Web Thing API to the WebThings Framework github.com/bw-hro/webthing-c… webthings.io/framework/

GitHub - bw-hro/webthing-cpp: Webthing-CPP is a modern CPP/C++17 implementation of the WebThings...

Webthing-CPP is a modern CPP/C++17 implementation of the WebThings API. - bw-hro/webthing-cpp

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~1,000 lines of code later and I know more about the NetworkManager DBus API than I ever wanted to know... #WebThings #UbuntuCore
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📣 Please be aware that automated emails for registering, confirming or reclaiming subdomains on the webthings.io remote access service may be disrupted over the next few days while we switch our outgoing mail servers.
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This work has now been completed. If you experience any issues receiving automated emails when registering or re-claiming a webthings.io suddomain then please file an issue at github.com/WebThingsIO/regis…

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Building the Web of Things

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