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Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

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Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

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I have been doing "IoT" for 10 years and after checking the website and the github repo I still have no clue about what flogo does. Isn't it like some basic http api for "triggers"? Is this what people think IoT is about? More importantly, can these basic set ups make money for some?

Hear, hear! I can only see it being compared with dropwizard which is "only" a REST framework for Java. What's the problem this is solving?

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

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post #10

It should be an IoT integration framework, which has 3,3 MB. That sound huge to me. If I have an embedded processor that has 1 MB of Flash, than that is already huge. Still this has to fit my application besides that framework.

Initially I thought the same, but looks like it's only a web application, not the software you'd ship with the node.

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

#13
post #12
post #10

It should be an IoT integration framework, which has 3,3 MB. That sound huge to me. If I have an embedded processor that has 1 MB of Flash, than that is already huge. Still this has to fit my application besides that framework.

Initially I thought the same, but looks like it's only a web application, not the software you'd ship with the node.

I'm not so sure.

"Build IoT applications that run on edge devices..."

The moment I see "runs on Raspberry Pi", I know they haven't done any thinking about low cost or low power consumption edge nodes. Get back to me when it can run on a CortexM0 with 128KiB of flash.

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

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post #7

I have been doing "IoT" for 10 years and after checking the website and the github repo I still have no clue about what flogo does. Isn't it like some basic http api for "triggers"? Is this what people think IoT is about? More importantly, can these basic set ups make money for some?

The gist I get is that it's a daemon for a gateway device (like a Raspberry Pi) that you configure data flows via JSON files. The Flogo CLI seems to be a JSON generator (https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-cli/blob/master/READM...). They compare their functionality to Nodered (http://nodered.org/) except it doesn't have a GUI (they mention working on it) and instead of being written in Node.js, it's written in Go.

I'm of the opinion that these frameworks for Gateway devices are reinventing Unix pipe and cron, that integrations for devices and databases should be written in any language (as CLI), and running logic on the gateway is 90% of the time not what you want to do, you just want to pull data from a device and push it to a database somewhere. Shameless plug, in my free time I work on Open Pipe Kit, a project that is building CLI for devices and databases. We're currently working on a series of DIY LORA Nodes for Agriculture. If anyone is interested in lending a hand, please reach out. http://openpipekit.github.io

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

#16
post #7

I have been doing "IoT" for 10 years and after checking the website and the github repo I still have no clue about what flogo does. Isn't it like some basic http api for "triggers"? Is this what people think IoT is about? More importantly, can these basic set ups make money for some?

Whats your take on using JSON in IoT devices?

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

#17

>Internal Use Only License Grant. TIBCO hereby grants you a limited, non‐transferable, non‐exclusive license to use the software solely for your internal business purposes. "open source"

Seconded. Don't let them advertise it as open source when it is just shareware with readable source.

(Yes, I understand this might be "open source" for some definition of "open" but it is now what we talk about when we mean open source, and I think that holds true both for MIT/BSD/ASL loves such as myself as well as for the (A|L)GPL crowd.

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

#18

>Internal Use Only License Grant. TIBCO hereby grants you a limited, non‐transferable, non‐exclusive license to use the software solely for your internal business purposes. "open source"

I want to point out that this license applies only to the base project, which only contains some documentation and samples. If you look at flogo-cli or one of the other linked projects, the license appears to grant more rights. It looks like it's in the BSD-style but I can't be bothered to scroll the long lines to read the whole thing.

Where is that license?

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to point out that this license applies only to the base project, which only contains some documentation and samples. If you look at flogo-cli or one of the other linked projects, the license appears to grant more rights. It looks like it's in the BSD-style but I can't be bothered to scroll the long lines to read the whole thing.

Where is that license?

https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-cli/blob/master/TIBCO...

And on each of the other projects linked from the TIBCOSoftware/flogo README

Re: Project Flogo – Open Source Framework for IoT Integration

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to point out that this license applies only to the base project, which only contains some documentation and samples. If you look at flogo-cli or one of the other linked projects, the license appears to grant more rights. It looks like it's in the BSD-style but I can't be bothered to scroll the long lines to read the whole thing.

Where is that license?

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