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New blog post: Announcing WebThings Gateway 2.0 https://t.co/cNQTQWAUIJ 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.

New blog post: Introducing the Web Thing Protocol https://t.co/1ApVyZS5Pw A dedicated real-time protocol for the Web of Things.

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.

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.

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

New blog post: My Vision of a Smart Building Operating System. #SmartBuildings #WebApps #WebOfThings

Did you know you can also find us on Mastodon?

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.

This work has been completed now and everything should be back up and running. If you experience any issues, please let us know.

📣 There will be a brief outage of the https://t.co/FnWZFiuO9T remote access service today for essential maintenance.

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

Call for Contributions: Web Thing Protocol WebSocket Sub-protocol #WoT #IoT #webstandards

Welcoming Benno Waldhauer's C++ implementation of the Web Thing API to the WebThings Framework https://t.co/WpKMeBtgnk https://t.co/AmOmlOpl6J

~1,000 lines of code later and I know more about the NetworkManager DBus API than I ever wanted to know... #WebThings #UbuntuCore

This work has now been completed. If you experience any issues receiving automated emails when registering or re-claiming a https://t.co/FnWZFiuO9T suddomain then please file an issue at

📣 Please be aware that automated emails for registering, confirming or reclaiming subdomains on the https://t.co/FnWZFiugkl remote access service may be disrupted over the next few days while we switch our outgoing mail servers.

📣 The https://t.co/FnWZFiugkl tunnelling service will be inaccessible for a brief period today for some essential maintenance.

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!

Thank you to @Docker for another year of sponsorship through the Docker-sponsored Open Source Program. This provides the WebThings project with the benefits of a Docker Team subscription and unlimited pulls of our docker images.

📢 WebThings Gateway 1.2 Alpha available for testing