📢 WebThings Gateway 2.1 Beta available for testing

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Dear WebThings community,

Happy Things Thursday!

I’m writing to let you know that early builds of WebThings Gateway 2.1 Beta are now available for testing. So far the release includes:

You can run the latest WebThings Gateway 2.1.0-beta.2 Docker image using a command like:

docker run \
    -d \
    -e TZ=Europe/London \
    -v /path/to/shared/data:/home/node/.webthings \
    --network="host" \
    --log-opt max-size=1m \
    --log-opt max-file=10 \
    --name webthings-gateway \
    webthingsio/gateway:2.1.0-beta.2

(replacing /path/to/shared/data with a directory in which you would like to store the .webthings data directory)

As ever your feedback, ideas and contributions are most welcome - here and on GitHub.

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Meanwhile work also continues on the WebThings App and WebThings Framework and there are some exciting developments on the standardisation front as the W3C WoT Working Group have expressed an interest in turning the Web Thing Protocol into a formal W3C standard. See my recent blog post on why I think there is a need for this universal web-based application layer protocol for the Web of Things, and how this has been a long term ambition of the WebThings project.

Kind regards

Ben

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Is there no update/s for the Snap package?

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Not yet. Are you using the snap package? If people are interested in that then we can release 2.1 Beta as a snap package too.

Now that we’re no longer targeting Ubuntu Core as a replacement base operating system I’m less motivated to work on it, but I do think it’s useful and arguably more user friendly to install than the Docker image so if people are interested in using/contributing to that then we can keep maintaining it.

Ben

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Yes I’m using the snap again.

I did go back to using version 1.1 because the Telegram addon doesn’t work in version 2.0 and I really needed notifications but then I discovered the Pushover addon and it works in version 2.0 so I’m back using version 2.0 again using the snap.

Pushover is really good by the way.

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