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Home automation platform.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Apache-2.0
WebThings is an open source implementation of the Web of Things, including the WebThings Gateway and the WebThings Framework.
WebThings Gateway is an open-source internet of things (iot) project, with 2.6k GitHub stars and a health score of 41/100. It committed 30 times in the last twelve months across 6 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MPL-2.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-04-21 |
| Days since last commit | 118 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 30 |
| Months with activity | 6 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-04-01 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Category | Internet of Things (IoT) |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
WebThings Gateway is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
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Slowing down. WebThings Gateway recorded 30 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 6 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-04-21. Last release: 2026-04-01. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
WebThings Gateway is published under MPL-2.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
20 open-source implementations, 10 of them actively maintained, led by Home Assistant at 90k stars. Saturation score 52/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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