WEBTHINGS GATEWAY GENERIC SENSORS ADAPTER

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INTRODUCTION:

Addon for WebThings Gateway, built on "generic-sensor-lite" module to abstract I2C driver by a stable API (W3C generic sensors).

USAGE:

• Install WebThings Gateway (0.4.0+) on supported system
• Enable I2C if not present (Enable ssh, log in, run raspi-config)
• It was tested on Raspberry PI 3 along 2 I2C sensors supported by "generic-sensors-lite" module

Check following wiki page for more details:

• https://github.com/rzr/webthing-iotjs/wiki/Addons

Default things are using hardware sensors, but simulators can be added explicitly from the UI: From configure page add device, select sensorType among (ambientlight, temperature or color) and type as multiLevelSensor (or customSensor eg: ColorSensor) then properties should be added, First is "on" as boolean, next is "level" as number or "color" as string.

DEMO:

RESOURCES:

• https://purl.org/rzr
• https://purl.org/rzr/sensors
• http://rzr.github.io/rzr-presentations/docs/sensors-webthings
• https://github.com/rzr/generic-sensors-webthings
• https://hub.samsunginter.net/adding-sensors-to-the-web-of-things/
• https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/creating-i2c-add-on/26696/4
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/generic-sensors-lite
• WebThingsIO/addon-list#54
• https://iot.mozilla.org/
• https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/
• https://www.npmjs.com/~rzr
• https://s-opensource.org/author/philcovalsamsungcom/
• WebThingsIO/gateway#1567

LICENSE: Apache-2.0