IoT Made simple

An account, an API Key and you are good to go !

The idea behind Datasocks is to provide an easy way to connect, monitor and control multiple IoT devices without having to setup a web server and deal with networking.

Study Case

• You want to get the temperature and the humidity level of your room to be sure that your plants will survive 🌱. You also want to be able to water them at any moment.
• For that you decide to go with a singleboard computer (like a Raspberry Pi) or an Arduino.
• Once done, you realise you need to setup a web server/app in your house,deal with opening your home network to the internet and the security issues that are implied to it.

Here's come Datasocks : After setting up Datasocks on a VPS (on Linode let's say 😉) with minimal requirements, generating an API Key for your device and embed it into a script into your device , you are good to go.

Your plants will thank you. 🌱😋

Deploy

Thanks to Linode's Stackscript feature you can quickly setup an instance with datasocks pre-installed

cloud.linode.com/stackscripts/1018923

The only thing to set up next is an .env file and start the docker compose process

docker-compose --env-file ./.env up

Features

• Create and own multiple dashboards
• Create cards to display the last value of a metric
• Create graphs (Lineplot for now) to measure the evolution on a time period
• Create buttons to activate functions on your devices (Still in dev)
• Manage mutiple devices

Why Websockets

• No need to setup a web server on the device itself and expose it to the Internet
• Bi-Directionnial communications
• Asynchronous system

Tech Stack

• Backend using Django, DRF and Channels
• Frontend in vanilla js using Bootstrap and Chartjs
• Docker and Docker-compose
• NGINX
• Redis

Github Repo : github.com/duranbe/datasocks

It's for now designed as a self-hosted and private application only, hence for now the support for only one admin user.

This project was made during and for the Linode x Hashnode Hackathon