IoT Made simple

Monitor and remote control in real time your IoT objects without the pain of dealing with Networking.

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

Datasocks use Websockets Protocol to communicate in an asynchronous way with your IoT devices.

It's for now designed as a self-hosted and private application (or a PoC ? ).

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

How it works

IoT devices are sending data in json format to the Datasocks server, where it can be saved and then redirect to the front-end giving a real-time update on the user web browser.

The user can control the object remotely by creating buttons that will send a special action to the pre-configured device.

Setup

Server

Using Docker

git clone https://github.com/duranbe/datasocks.git
docker-compose build
docker-compose --env-file ./.env up

Client

Here is an example of sending data from a device (Python)

import websocket # https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client
import json
from random import randint,random
from datetime import datetime

ws = websocket.create_connection(f"ws://<URL>/ws/dashboard/<DASHBOARD_ID>/?api_key=<APIKEY>) 

ws.send(json.dumps(
		{ 	
			"metric_name": "Temp",
			"value": random()*5.65,
			"date": datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y T %H:%M:%S"),
		}
))
ws.close()

Why not a simple POST/GET system ?

• Need to setup a web server on the device itself and open the router to the Internet
• No efficient if there is no event (Polling needed)