Itâs also the first release to be compliant with the W3C Web of Things 1.x family of standards and comes with some major OS upgrades and a new release model.
To find out more about this release, and whatâs coming next for the WebThings project, check out our announcement blog post, then go ahead and download it from our website.
The WebThings open source project is maintained by an international community of volunteers and weâd like to say a big thank you to the many contributors who made this release possible.
OOPS, I think my problem was linking the wrong/old image when starting docker. I updated my docker start script and the error below did not appearâŚ.
The logs did complain about the Virtual Things and Date Time adapters though which Iâve disabled for my testing.
Sorry for the confusion.
Eric
When starting the 2.0 image. Could not manually obtain url either.
2025-12-20 07:32:05.620 ERROR : Failed to parse add-on list: FetchError: request to https://api.webthings.io:8443/addons?arch=linux-arm64&version=2.0.0&node=115&python=3.11 failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 44.240.205.60:8443
at ClientRequest. (/home/node/webthings/gateway/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1501:11)
at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:524:28)
at emitErrorEvent (node:_http_client:101:11)
at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:504:5)
at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:524:28)
at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:169:8)
at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:128:3)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
type: âsystemâ,
errno: âECONNREFUSEDâ,
code: âECONNREFUSEDâ
}
I actually donât think it was you. I just logged into the cloud servers for the back end services and discovered that some of the docker containers had randomly stopped themselves, possibly as a result of an OS update yesterday. The add-on proxy wasnât running which is why you couldnât get a list of add-ons.
Iâve re-started all the Docker containers so things should be running smoothly again now.
Excellent news. Will look forward to testing on my spare RPi4. Noted that the Date Time adapter is currently not working, dang, this is needed for my installs.
Anyway, on wards to testing on my spare RPI4 and a pair of N100 NUCs.
In addition to Date Time (which I disabled in my test docker) the Zwave addon seems to be just missing. I canât âaddâ it since itâs not in the list. No worries for me as I have moved most of my automation to Home Assistant, except for Zwave, which I still runs on WebThings, mostly because I do not want to re-locate the controller to HA and need to reset & install each my 10 zw devices again.
Motto: if it ainât broke, donât mess with itâŚ.
We may also need to release a new version of the gateway-addon-python package with upgraded packages (see this PR) and put out a quick bugfix release of the gateway which bundles it.
That depends a bit on how much people use it, and contribute. I spent a year trying to work with Canonical to port WebThings Gateway to Ubuntu Core as a snap package, and it mostly works and it is now marked as a stable release, but there are some outstanding issues in getting the gateway to work fully within snap confinement.
I do hope to keep maintaining it if people find it useful, and in some areas it can actually currently do things the Docker image canât do (e.g network settings).
Im unable to contribute sorry because im not a software engineer.
Ive installed Ubuntu Server 24.04.3 (not Ubuntu Core) in a VM and installed the snap and have come across a few issues but it looks like theyâre already filed on GitHub except for one- that being i cant see the Power Settings addon that adds a menu option to shutdown or reboot device.
Im unable to contribute sorry because im not a software engineer.
There are lots of ways to contribute, like filing bugs for example
Ive installed Ubuntu Server 24.04.3 (not Ubuntu Core) in a VM and installed the snap and have come across a few issues but it looks like theyâre already filed on GitHub except for one- that being i cant see the Power Settings addon that adds a menu option to shutdown or reboot device.
Thank you for testing the snap.
It looks like the Power Settings add-on says in its manifest that it only supports up to Python 3.9, but the WebThings Gateway 2.0 Docker image comes with Python 3.11. This is probably why it is not available on 2.0. It looks as though the GitHub repository for that add-on has been archived and is no longer being actively developed. There is a new add-on that replaces it but itâs not currently listed in the WebThings add-on directory and may only support the Candle fork of WebThings Gateway.
Someone might be interested in creating a new add-on for this, but Iâm also interested in adding built-in shut down/reboot buttons in the gateway UI since it seems like a useful feature.
