...domesticate the Internet of Things.
ioBroker is an integration platform for the Internet of Things, focused on Smarthome, Building Automation, Ambient Assisted Living, Process Automation, Visualization and Data Logging. It aims to be a possible replacement for software like f.e. OpenHAB or The Thing System. ioBroker will be the successor of CCU.IO, a project quite popular in the german HomeMatic community.
ioBroker is not just an application, it's more of a a concept, a database schema, and offers a very easy way for systems to interoperate. ioBroker defines some common rules for a pair of databases used to exchange data and publish events between different systems.
Systems are attached to ioBrokers databases via so called adapters, technically processes running anywhere in the network and connecting all kinds of systems to ioBrokers databases. A connection to ioBrokers databases can be easily implemented in nearly any programming language on nearly any platform that is capable of doing ip networking.
ioBroker uses Redis and CouchDB. Redis is an in-memory key-value data store and also a message broker with publish/subscribe pattern. It's used to maintain and publish all states of connected systems. CouchDB is used to store rarely changing and larger data, like metadata of systems and things, configurations or any additional files.
ioBroker is designed to be accessed by trusted adapters inside trusted networks. This means that usually it is not a good idea to expose the ioBroker databases directly to the internet or, in general, to an environment where untrusted clients can directly access ioBroker databases network services. There are different special adapters that offer services needed to be exposed to the internet, for example webserver-adapters for user interfaces. These should be handled with care, for example with additional security measures like a reverse proxy.
- Clone the repository or download and unzip the zip-file
- Change to the iobroker root directory
- run
npm installto install dependencies - if CouchDB and/or Redis aren't running on localhost you need to edit conf/iobroker.json according to your needs
- Change to the ioBroker/adapter/admin directory
- run
npm installto install dependencies - Change back to the iobroker/ directory
- run
node iobroker.js add admin
- run
node iobroker.js start - watch the logfile
tail -f log/iobroker.log
- open Futon on http://<couch>:5984/_utils/ and set attribute enabled true in object system.adapter.web.0
- watch the logfile for the line
info: web.0 http server listening on port ... - open http://<host>:<port>/admin
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