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WebThings Documentation

A guide to using and developing for the WebThings IoT Platform

WebThings

WebThings is an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web.

It is an open source implementation of emerging Web of Things standards at the W3C.

User Guide

WebThings Gateway

WebThings Gateway is a software distribution for smart home gateways which allows users to directly monitor and control their smart home over the web, without a middleman.

Developer Guide

Web Thing API

The Web Thing API is the REST & WebSockets API used by the WebThings IoT platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. Parts of the Web Thing API specification are currently being standardised via the W3C.

WebThings Gateway

WebThings Gateway is an open source implementation of a Web of Things gateway which bridges a range of different IoT protocols to the Web Thing API and provides a web interface for users to monitor and control devices.

Add-Ons

WebThings Framework

WebThings Framework is a collection of re-usable software components to help developers build their own web things which directly expose the Web Thing API.

WebThings Libraries

Third Party Libraries

• Moddable
• Atmosphere IoT
• IoT.js by rzr
• C# by lillo42
• Go by rzr
• Go by dravenk
• ESP-IDF by akshayvernekar
• PHP by maliknaik16
• Python by hidaris

WebThings Cloud

WebThings Cloud is a collection of cloud services for remotely managing web things over the internet. WebThings Cloud includes a remote access service which can create an end-to-end encrypted tunnel between a WoT gateway (or device) and a WoT client so that it can be securely accessed over the internet.

External Resources

• Mozilla Hacks Blog - Web of Things - Original Mozilla WebThings blog
• TwoBraids Blog - Blog posts about WebThings

WebThings Documentation maintained by WebThingsIO

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