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27 Feb 2025

Erlang Solutions Team 8 min read

Learn five key IoT business security considerations to protect your business from data breaches and operational disruptions. The post Top 5 IoT Business Security Basics appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

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6 Jul 2023

Joyce Lin 3 min read

Get started with the Home Assistant WebSocket API In Part 1 of this series, we learned about the WebSocket protocol and how to set up our own WebSocket server in Node.js . Next, let’s explore how to use a public WebSocket API to access smart devices around a connected home. REST and WebSockets for a connected home When it comes…

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22 May 2023

Jacob 4 min read

Leveraging IoT to deliver printouts to your doorstep Setting up our Printout Delivery Store has been highly satisfying. At one end is the joy of customers discovering an easy, home-delivered solution for last-minute printouts. But even more enjoyable is the knowledge that we created a nationwide service with only a Raspberry Pi and a seamless print flow that effectively harnesses…

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24 Jun 2020

Nancy Hang 2 min read

Mozilla WebThings Gateway is an open source software distribution focused on privacy, security, and interoperability. It provides a web-based user interface to monitor and control smart home devices over the web. OKdo, a UK vendor offerings IoT technology for hobbyists, educators, and entrepreneurs, has announced the release of the WebThings Gateway Kit, with everything you need to get the Gateway…

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19 Nov 2019

Michael Stegeman 5 min read

Version 0.10 of Mozilla’s WebThings Gateway brings support for extension-type add-ons. Released last week, this powerful new capability lets developers modify the user interface (UI) to their liking with JavaScript and CSS. We also provide libraries for writing UI extensions in Python or node.js if you prefer. Let us know what you build! The post Creating UI Extensions for WebThings…

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14 Nov 2019

Ben Francis 3 min read

Today we are releasing WebThings Gateway 0.10. This new release comes with support for thermostats and smart locks, as well as an updated add-ons system including extension add-ons, which enable developers to extend the gateway user interface. We’ve also added localisation settings so that you can choose your country, language, time zone and unit preferences. The post Thermostats, Locks and…

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15 Aug 2019

James Hobin 4 min read

The WebThings Gateway 0.9 release lets you set up a number of different notification mechanisms including emails, apps, and text messages. In this post James Hobin shows how to set up custom gateway notifications to warn you of changes in your home that you care about. The post Using WebThings Gateway notifications as a warning system for your home appeared…

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25 Jul 2019

Ben Francis 3 min read

The Mozilla IoT team has been working on evolving WebThings Gateway into a full software distribution for consumer wireless routers. Today, with the 0.9 release, we’re happy to announce the availability of the first experimental builds for our first target router hardware, the Turris Omnia. These builds are based on the open source OpenWrt operating system and feature a new…

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15 May 2019

Josephine Lau 8 min read

In designing Mozilla WebThings, we have consciously insulated users from servers that could harvest their data, including our own Mozilla servers, by offering an interoperable, decentralized IoT solution. Learn about the user research that informs our project, and how we've engineered privacy by design into every aspect of Mozilla WebThings. The post Empowering User Privacy and Decentralizing IoT with Mozilla…

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30 Sept 2016

Dave Cheney 4 min read

The recent total war bombardment of Brian Krebs’ site, and the subsequent allegation that the traffic emanated from compromised home routers, cameras, baby monitors, doorbells, thermostats, and whatnot, got me thinking. Prolexic said the 665 Gbps attack that hit my site tonight is almost twice the size of the largest attack they've seen previously. — […]

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