benfrancis

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Introducing the Web Thing Protocol(tola.me.uk)
1 points by benfrancis 11mo ago|1 comments
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by benfrancis 11mo ago
I am excited to share that the W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group has published the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket sub-protocol, a dedicated real-time protocol for the Web of Things. The Web Thing Protocol provides a We
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by benfrancis 2y ago
I'm still not sure I've fully understood you, but I think you're probably making some assumptions about the business model around this and how it would be deployed, whereas the blog post was just about the technical architect
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by benfrancis 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. The idea of the hub is to consolidate (centralise) multi-vendor building management systems into a single unified interface, for the benefit of the people whose responsibility it is to manage build
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My Vision of a Smart Building Operating System(tola.me.uk)
2 points by benfrancis 2y ago|6 comments
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by benfrancis 2y ago
A whole building operating system, built on web technologies, which weaves together every sensor, actuator and human-computer interface in a building into a seamless user experience.
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Make your premises smarter, safer and more sustainable with Krellian(medium.com)
1 points by benfrancis 5y ago|1 comments
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by benfrancis 5y ago
Introducing Krellian Hub and Krellian Console, powered by WebThings, built on W3C WoT standards.
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by benfrancis 6y ago
The Web of Things direct integration pattern [1] (running a web server directly on a device) is not a good fit for MCUs, with a few very high end exceptions (e.g. ESP8266 and ESP32 for which the WebThings Framework works perfectly well). Fo
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by benfrancis 6y ago
I think that's a fair observation and I'm really excited about CHIP. The person driving CHIP at Apple was the person who originally hired me to work at Mozilla and I'm hopeful they might pull it off. The list of participants
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by benfrancis 6y ago
To answer your question, the goal of the WebThings platform as a whole is to improve interoperability between connected devices by making the Web of Things a unifying application layer for the Internet of Things which bridges together multi
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by benfrancis 6y ago
Interesting. That's very different to what WebThings provides today but that's something I'd like to see too and have toyed with building in the past. Chromecast was once very close to being an open platform by implementing t
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by benfrancis 6y ago
I'm pleased to report that WebThings isn't dead, it is alive and kicking with a new commercial sponsor. The Thing Description specification at the core of WebThings is now a W3C Recommendation ( https://www.w3.org/T
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by benfrancis 6y ago
The WebThings platform was a four year project at Mozilla which sadly ended when their Emerging Technologies department was wound down, as part of a recent round of layoffs affecting a quarter of Mozilla's workforce. The closest that W
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by benfrancis 6y ago
Sorry to hear that and I'm very sad about the recent layoffs at Mozilla too, which included lots of people I know. What would convince you to give WebThings a second chance under its new management?
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Update on Mozilla WebThings(discourse.mozilla.org)
132 points by benfrancis 6y ago|61 comments
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Krellian Box – the box that turns any TV into a connected digital sign(krellian.com)
1 points by benfrancis 6y ago|0 comments
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The Legacy of Firefox OS(medium.com)
54 points by benfrancis 8y ago|2 comments
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by benfrancis 9y ago
HTTP2 server push isn't really designed for the kind of two way communication needed in IoT use cases, it's mainly designed for web servers pushing CSS files down to a web browser before they're requested. MQTT isn't a w
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The Story of Firefox OS(medium.com)
226 points by benfrancis 10y ago|85 comments
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by benfrancis 12y ago
> You can't change tabs unless you scroll all the way to the top, otherwise the address bar is hidden. This is very common feedback and I assure you it hasn't fallen on deaf ears. From version 2.1 the address bar will show as s
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by benfrancis 12y ago
From version 2.0, disable search suggestions in the Homescreen settings in the Settings app and you'll stop getting recommendations from EverythingMe.
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by benfrancis 12y ago
I recommend the dev-webapi mailing list. It is full of Magic Justins waiting to cast new magic spells for you. https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapi