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Mozilla's DIY smart home platform now has a virtual assistant

Mozilla’s Things Gateway has received a major update, with new additions including interactive floorplans, customizable devices, and an experimental smart assistant.

Things is a platform that lets you build your own smart home system and control it via a web interface using a Raspberry Pi – solving the problem of trying to get different smart home ecosystems (such as Google Home and Amazon Echo) to interact with one another. With Things Gateway, you connect your smart devices to the web and give each one a URL, then control them all using a single, simple web interface.

Smart just got smarter

The Things assistant lets you give commands in natural language (by typing or speaking), and presents responses in a chat style interface. For example, if you tell the assistant to turn the dining room light on, it will respond to confirm that it’s been done. It’s still in an experimental stage and won’t be competing with Alexa or Cortana any time soon, but it looks promising.

Things Gateway’s interactive floorplans let you see the status of all your devices at a glance and control them with a single click. You can also choose custom icons to represent different devices, and create a custom web interface for a specific device (ideal for complex or unusual devices like robots).

You can now control smart home devices from within a floorplan

Things Gateway gives you more control over devices thanks to a new ‘capabilities’ system too. For a full list of all the changes and updates, check out Mozilla’s blog.

Things Gateway 0.5 is now available to download free, and Mozilla has published a full guide explaining how to get started setting up your custom smart home using a Raspberry Pi 3.0.

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Build your own smart home hub with Mozilla's Project Things

Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, has launched Project Things – a platform that lets you connect and control all your smart home devices via a single web interface using a Raspberry Pi.

It aims to let users mix and match devices and build their own smart home network, without being tied to a particular platform (like Amazon Echo, Samsung SmartThings or Google Home).

Project Things lets you build a gateway to connect your smart devices directly to the web, and give each one its own URL. You can control them using a simple web interface and voice controls (the latter feature is currently in an experimental stage).

Home hacking

Project Things lets you create ‘if this, then that’ commands to control how your devices interact, and set up floor plans showing the position of devices in your home (with virtual devices to represent any you don’t own yet). There’s also an add-on system for third-party extensions.

Project Things is still very much a work in progress, and currently only supports a small range of devices, but the new release adds support for dimmable switches and smart plugs. More hardware will be added in future releases.