Test Instance of Things Gateway by Mozilla

Dear Interest Group,

In the spirit of enabling ongoing online interoperability testing outside
of face to face Plugfests, the Mozilla IoT team have set up an instance of
our open source Web of Things gateway implementation
<https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway> in the cloud for you to test
against.

You can access this test instance at https://w3c-interop.mozilla-iot.org/

Note that the gateway currently implements Mozilla's Web Thing API
<https://iot.mozilla.org/wot> proposal (including a Thing Description and
concrete REST & WebSockets API), but we hope for it to converge with the
Working Group's Thing Description specification over time.

I've written some quick documentation on how to use the test instance on
our wiki <https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Test-Gateway-Instance>.
We encourage you to experiment, but note that all added "things" will be
cleared every 24 hours. For the time being we also ask that you don't
remove the default user account as we'll have to manually reset it!

If you want to test with real (as opposed to just virtual) devices, you
will need to download <https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/> and run the
gateway software yourself, or build it from source
<https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway>.

If you have any questions you can ask them on Discourse
<https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/iot>, or find us in #iot on irc.mozilla.org.
I also hang out in #wot on irc.w3.org (it would be nice for this to be used
for chat outside of meetings!). If you find bugs, please file them on GitHub
<https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway/issues>.

Happy Hacking!

Ben
Mozilla IoT Team
iot.mozilla.org