Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware • Hacker News Board

Re: Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

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Post by Proven » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 1:51 AM UTC

zaarn wrote: post #9

Proven wrote: post #3

They’re constantly coming up with new ways to make money with aggregated data mining. Mostly it’s about crating services by copying established OSS functionality but still - good job!

Okay, so what part of this open source and locally hosted application will do the datamining?

1) OTA still can be disabled only by hacking the source code https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway/issues/565#issuecomme...

2) Mozilla VPN is recommended for tunneling, this is where most of data harvesting will occur. The same idea that Opera and others came with (many years ago)

Re: Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

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Post by knd775 » Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 12:56 PM UTC

hokkos wrote: post #168

knd775 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by export its data?

Get the temperature, humidity, pressure, open/close state of the sensors, live.

Ah, here you go then.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/xiaomi_aqara/

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/tree/dev/ho...

Re: Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

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Post by kgiori » Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 11:16 PM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #125

Any reason Mozilla is not picking up and supporting one of the DD-WRT/OpenWRT projects ? They are hugely popular, have a huge userbase and are well supported by a lot of hardware (most TP-Link, Linksys, etc).

The WebThings Gateway does support OpenWrt if the router is beefy enough (decent app processor, RAM, and flash). Most cheap routers wouldn't work. If you are a savvy OpenWrt user see: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/lang/node-mo...

The Turris OS that runs on Omnia is a customized OpenWrt build that lets a user plug a USB memory stick (with the Mozilla WebThings Gateway image, and only that image on it) into the Omnia, hold down the reset button until the 4th front panel LED lights, let go, and wait until it installs and the "WebThings Gateway XXYY" SSID appears. Then connect to it and proceed with the setup process. Suggest other hardware to potentially support on Mozilla's Discourse "iot" channel. Or the mozilla-iot/gateway repo on github.