An open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. Formerly Mozilla WebThings. @WebThingsIO@mastodon.social
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10 Jan 2024
WebThings is an open source project maintained by a community of volunteers. Get involved at webthings.io/community/
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Mar 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. 🧵
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Feb 11
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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19 Dec 2025
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.
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6 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.
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24 Mar 2025
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.
ALT Docker logo with "Sponsored OSS" badge.
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19 Mar 2025
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…
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12 Mar 2025
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/…
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3 Feb 2025
New blog post: My Vision of a Smart Building Operating System. #SmartBuildings #WebApps #WebOfThings tola.me.uk/blog/2025/02/03/m…
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29 Jan 2025
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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28 Jan 2025
📣 There will be a brief outage of the webthings.io remote access service today for essential maintenance.
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28 Jan 2025
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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10 Jan 2025
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…
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21 Nov 2024
Call for Contributions: Web Thing Protocol WebSocket Sub-protocol #WoT #IoT #webstandards w3.org/community/web-thing-p…
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28 Oct 2024
Welcoming Benno Waldhauer's C implementation of the Web Thing API to the WebThings Framework github.com/bw-hro/webthing-c…
webthings.io/framework/
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25 Oct 2024
~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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30 Sep 2024
📣 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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8 Oct 2024
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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16 Aug 2024
📣 The webthings.io tunnelling service will be inaccessible for a brief period today for some essential maintenance.
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15 Mar 2024
We are delighted to be adding Amazon Web Services as a sponsor of the WebThings project, though the AWS Open Source Credits Program by @AWSOpen. These credits will help pay for our back end infrastructure over the next year and allow us to keep on building the Web of Things!
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