As discused in #3, I'd be interrested in getting this application working for much older versions of android.

I think this has a nice potential for reuse of older hardware that can't be updated.

I have a bunch of old phones/tablets that I can help testing. For example one of the oldest devices is a 2.3.7 version of Android. (but also 4.1.1 and 6.0).

I know this is a technical challenge and I'd be happy to have way less features on older versions of the application.

Reply android 9 pie update

I cloned your app and built it. Installed on a Nexus 6 running carbon rom.
Server on phone (port 8088) runs fine. When I try to find it on the gateway it says paring as failed?

Wil post some logs when I get the gateway back up.. it has lost its settings for add-ons and I need to reset things.

can you please add changelog.
what is CHANGELOG ?

cool idea to re-purpose an old android phone!

some ideas for how to take advantage of one as a web thing:
camera: take snapshots or stream video on demand; run ML apps to detect/count people vs animals, measure luminosity
motion: if attached to a door, garage door, window, or other movable object it can trigger upon detected motion
sound: listen for loud alarms (security alarms, smoke or fire alarms)
camera and speaker: use as smart intercom system between two of them

Hello,

F-Droid shows Webthingify as incompatible with Android 9.

Do you plan to remove the upward compatibilty ceil?

I'd be glad to be able to play with Mozilla's IOT APIs with my phone sensors! Sounds exciting!

Regards

Hi There,

I have set up webthings-gateway, as per the description on their GitHub page, however, after I enable your app on the phone, on port 8088, the gateway is not able to 'find' it, even if I add the URL with the phone's IP manually. The phone and gateway are on the same sub-net, they can ping each other. Is there anything else special to set up on android, maybe root (already have)? Or a special plugin or add-on needs to be installed on the gateway?

Thank you,