Re: Browser as an universal client for IoT

Safari at least implements the basics - i think there's great value in
being able to walk up to any browser on the network and type "oven.local",
for example, and that indeed is how our Sensible framework works :-) but as
far as i know, no browser natively implements bringing back lists in return
for searches - though using the Web UDP API works fine.

seems like the pattern for newly installed devices is for them to make Wifi
networks and then allow clients to join them in order to configure access
to the main network.

one thing i've not sorted is how to determine proximity to a device. Wifi
isn't much use in this area. does any variant of Bt give an idea of
proximity, maybe based on signal strength? would be nice to have a WoT
volume knob figure out which device to control based on proximity, for
example.





On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Benjamin Francis <bfrancis@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Having mDNS support in all browsers/operating systems would be a great
> start! This allows a device or gateway to broadcast a Thing's existence on
> the local network so that a browser can discover it.
>
> As Scott mentions, physical web beacons can also provide a discovery
> mechanism for the user agent which doesn't require the Thing to already be
> connected to the the same LAN.
>
> Ben
>
> On 23 September 2016 at 16:35, Jason Proctor <jason@mono.hm> wrote:
>
>> this is our approach too -- run web/websockets servers on the Things and
>> use mDNS to find them. works great for us, at least!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:02 AM, 전종홍 <hollobit@etri.re.kr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I’d like to propose one of different view point for WoT.
>>>
>>> I think we need to start to find the way how can we use the web
>>> client(UA or browser) as an universal IoT client.
>>>
>>> http://www.slideshare.net/hollobit/web-browser-as-universal-
>>> client-for-iot
>>>
>>> How do you think about starting the idea scratch actions for web client
>>> as IoT browser in the WoT IG ?
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> — Jonathan Jeon
>>>
>>
>>
>