WebThings Gateway is a web-based platform that allows you to control your smart home devices. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WebThings Gateway on FreeBSD Latest.
Before we begin, you need to make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
Follow the steps below to install WebThings Gateway on FreeBSD Latest:
First, you need to install the required packages:
sudo pkg install curl unzip ca_root_nss
Next, you need to download and extract the WebThings Gateway archive:
curl -L https://github.com/WebThingsIO/gateway/releases/download/0.12.0/webthings-gateway-0.12.0.zip -o webthings-gateway.zip
unzip webthings-gateway.zip
Now, you need to set the executable permissions to the gateway binary:
cd webthings-gateway-0.12.0
chmod +x gateway
Finally, you can start WebThings Gateway by running the following command:
./gateway --log-verbose
Congratulations! You have successfully installed WebThings Gateway on FreeBSD Latest. Now, you can control your smart home devices using WebThings Gateway.
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