The Quantum IoT Platform offers you multiple ways to talk to existing IoT Platforms in your house. They are called gateways and can be installed through the Quantum Store. To understand configuration correctly please refer to the individual documentation found in the pages below.
We will extend the number of platforms support by the system as well as improve the setup processes for each individual gateway in the future.
Gateways in general add Devices to your system that you can interact with. Devices are usually defined by a set of Hardware. So let’s say you connect the Smartthings Gateway all the Smartthing Devices will be added to your Q-Server so that you can interact with them the way you are already familiar with. Gateways are integrated in your System so that you can use Third party devices just like the Q-Clients.
Setup Gateways
Every Setup is different you can find guides to each Gateway right here inside the Documentation.
The general process is:
Activate gateway from the Store site
Enter setup parameters
Devices appear in your device list
Done! You can now map your newly added devices to existing Apps or create new ones
Tips:
To map the device you need to add hardware to your application. Inside the debug overview that you can reach from the device view you can find out what hardware your gateway device comes with.
Difference to Service
Services are very specific. They interact with external resources like voice recognition, Databases, Weather Services, SMS Messaging services and others
Gateways add Devices to your System - Services do not
For Services you can find specific Objects inside the Application builder - Gateways just use the the general hardware library that the Q-Clients also use.
Missing a Gateway?
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