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SkyNet – API for the Internet of things

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Lots of similar concepts to what we do with NoFlo and MicroFlo in Flowhub (http://flowhub.io/) -- and actually interesting that they went with the more limited editor from Node Red instead of our open source UI (https://github.com/noflo/noflo-ui)

Here's one fun IoT project we did in Flowhub: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/ingress-table/

In any case, great that SkyNet is open source. I'll look at wrapping the APIs to NoFlo components when I find a bit of time...

Our Octoblu designer is a MUCH more robust version of NodeRED. It's multi-tenant and sandboxed via Docker.

Our goal with NodeBLU was to release a very simple client-side designer that didn't require setup and at the same time incorporated more client-side technologies such as: WebRTC, Google Speech APIs, HTML5 notifications, Game controllers, Chrome DB datastores, as well as SkyNet nodes.

Sounds very similar to NoFlo UI still. We have pretty much all those client-side features as components already :-)

One thing that might be interesting to you is the protocol we use to talk between UI and runtimes, and runtime-to-runtime:

http://noflojs.org/documentation/protocol/

I wonder why MTQQ has been chosen as protocol. It seems that this protocol has quite some deficiencies according to this article: http://vasters.com/clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+...

Http headers with usernames and passwords sent in the clear? Sounds like a nightmare.

I was hoping for "TLS w/ pre-shared keys", where they embed a key on the chip, to help against this. http://t.co/9EFR8NtTPc (0:46:00)

We have a TLS certificate and support HTTPS on all REST APIs as well as WebSocket API calls. It's your option as to whether or not you use SSL.

> SkyNet is powered by Node.JS

Great to see that the revolution is not for today

Well, I have a flying robot company but out of respect we went with a different name :-)

Cool stuff. I'm going to go bug them in IRC now.

Awesome! #skynetim on freenode.net.

So, everything goes to skynet.im ?

Is it possible to self-host such a hub ?

Annnnd thats how it starts. I, for one, welcome our Cloud-based overlords.

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