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Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro2 DIY
Version 2 of the myFocuser Project
myFocuserPro2 (myFP2) is an ASCOM - INDI - LINUX - WINDOWS telescope focuser with a large range of options. 315,606+ file downloads. The most popular focuser project. (c) Copyright Robert Brown 2014-2026. All Rights Reserved. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without written permission from the author. Other Focuser Projects myFP2ESP32 WiFi - https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfocuserpro2-esp32/ [ESP32 Only] myFP2ESP8266 WiFi - https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfp2esp8266-focus-controller/ myFP2N - Nextion touch screen display - https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/myFocuserPro2N%20NEXTION%20TFT%20DISPLAY/ myFP2M - Ready made Controllers https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/myFocuserPro2M/ Please look in the Files-Documents folder for more information. https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/Documentation/ -
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MQTT X
Powerful cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop, CLI, and WebSocket client
MQTT X is a cross-platform MQTT 5.0 client tool open sourced by EMQ, which can run on macOS, Linux and Windows, and supports formatting MQTT payload. MQTT X simplifies test operation with the help of a familiar, chat-like interface. It’s easy and quick to create multiple, simultaneous online MQTT client connections, and can test the connection, publishing, and subscription functions of MQTT/TCP, MQTT/TLS, MQTT/WebSocket as well as other MQTT protocol features. MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. It is a publish/subscribe, extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol, designed for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. To run MQTT Broker locally, EMQX is recommended: An Open-Source, Cloud-Native, Distributed MQTT Broker for IoT. After the MQTT is connected successfully, you can perform MQTT publish and subscription tests. -
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MAX! home automation
MAX! cube GUI
MAX home automation is a GTK+ application to manage ELV/eQ-3 MAX! cubes. A cube is a gateway to a network of radiator thermostats, shutter contacts etc. Radiator and wall-mounted thermostat schedule can be edited uploaded, stored into a file and restored from there. Wall-mounted thermostat temperature graphs are indicated on a separate page sorted by the installation room. HTTP server is provided for integration with HTTP-enabled controls. E.g. thermostats can be queried and controlled remotely via HTTP GET-queries. -
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ESPHome
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32
ESPHome is a system for defining and deploying custom firmware to ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers for smart home automation. Using a simple YAML configuration, users can specify how sensors, switches, and devices should behave, and ESPHome compiles and flashes the firmware accordingly. Integrated seamlessly with Home Assistant, ESPHome is ideal for DIY home automation enthusiasts who want full control over their IoT devices. -
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ThingsBoard
Device management, data collection, processing and visualization
ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. It enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols, MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports both cloud and on-premises deployments. ThingsBoard combines scalability, fault-tolerance and performance so you will never lose your data. Provision, monitor and control your IoT entities in a secure way using rich server-side APIs. Define relations between your devices, assets, customers or any other entities. Collect and store telemetry data in a scalable and fault-tolerant way. Visualize your data with built-in or custom widgets and flexible dashboards. Share dashboards with your customers. Define data processing rule chains. Transform and normalize your device data. Raise alarms on incoming telemetry events, attribute updates, device inactivity, and user actions. -
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Zephyr Project
Scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures
The Zephyr Project is a new generation real-time operating system (RTOS) that supports multiple hardware architectures. It is based on a small-footprint kernel specially designed for use on resource-constrained and embedded systems. The Zephyr OS can be used for a wide range of applications: from simple embedded environmental sensors and LED wearables to sophisticated embedded controllers, smart watches, and IoT wireless applications. -
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EMQX
The Most Scalable MQTT Broker for IoT
EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT Broker designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen and Ericsson. Flex to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including Connected Vehicles, Industrial IoT, Oil & Gas, Carrier, Finance, Smart Energy, and Smart Cities. -
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mySQM+ DIY SQM WEATHER STATION
ESP32 mySQM+ Sky-Meter/Weather Station with loads of features
mySQM+ Sky Quality Meter/Weather Station (c) R Brown, 2020-2025, All rights reserved. Permission is granted for personal and Academic use only. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without appropriate credit given to author(s). EXPANSION BOARDS - You can expand this project using the two types of project expansion boards at https://sourceforge.net/projects/myesp-boards/ -
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OSHMI - Open Substation HMI
SCADA HMI for substations, IoT and automation applications
Now with IEC61850 support! This project combines existing open source projects and tools to create a very capable, mobile and cloud-friendly HMI system that can rival proprietary software. This approach makes it possible to join forces of each project (Chromium, SVG/HTML5, PHP, Lua, SQLite, Inkscape, Lib61850, OpenDNP3, Nginx, Vega, PostgreSQL, Grafana,…) to achieve a great set of open, evergreen, modular and customizable tools for building great HMIs for automation projects. This is not a toy project! It's been actually used in dozens of substations up to 230kV level and also in control centers with configurations up to 70.000 tags. Feel free to ask questions in the "Discussion" section. Help sponsoring OSHMI here https://github.com/sponsors/riclolsen. >>> Have a look also at my new SCADA project here: https://github.com/riclolsen/json-scada -
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Zigbee2MQTT
Get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges
Zigbee2MQTT is an open-source bridge that lets users operate Zigbee devices without relying on proprietary vendor gateways. It connects compatible Zigbee adapters to devices and translates their events and controls into MQTT messages. This makes Zigbee hardware usable with a wide range of home automation platforms rather than tying it to one ecosystem. The project maintains device state locally and provides web interfaces for monitoring and configuration. Its architecture combines zigbee-herdsman for radio communication with device converters that map individual hardware models to Zigbee capabilities. It supports an extensive device catalog and integrates with platforms such as Home Assistant, Homey, Domoticz, Gladys Assistant, and ioBroker. -
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SerialTest
A cross platform debugger for serial port/Bluetooth/TCP/UDP
A versatile test tool running on Windows/Linux/macOS/Android. Works as data transceiver/realtime plotter/shortcut/file transceiver. Supports serial port, Bluetooth SPP client/server, Bluetooth LE client, TCP client/server, UDP. Homepage: https://github.com/wh201906/SerialTest -
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AWS IoT Device Defender Library
Client library for using AWS IoT Defender service on embedded devices
The Device Defender library enables you to send device metrics to the AWS IoT Device Defender Service. This library also supports custom metrics, a feature that helps you monitor operational health metrics that are unique to your fleet or use case. For example, you can define a new metric to monitor the memory usage or CPU usage on your devices. This library has no dependencies on any additional libraries other than the standard C library, and therefore, can be used with any MQTT client library. This library is distributed under the MIT Open Source License. This library has gone through code quality checks including verification that no function has a GNU Complexity score over 8, and checks against deviations from mandatory rules in the MISRA coding standard. Deviations from the MISRA C:2012 guidelines are documented under MISRA Deviations. This library has also undergone static code analysis using Coverity static analysis. -
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Aedes
Barebone MQTT broker that can run on any stream server
A high-performance MQTT broker for IoT applications, designed to be lightweight and scalable. -
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HStreamDB
HStreamDB is an open-source, cloud-native streaming database
HStreamDB is an open-source, cloud-native streaming database for IoT and beyond. Modernize your data stack for real-time applications. By subscribing to streams in HStreamDB, any update of the data stream will be pushed to your apps in real-time, and this promotes your apps to be more responsive. You can also replace message brokers with HStreamDB and everything you do with message brokers can be done better with HStreamDB. HStreamDB provides built-in support for event time-based stream processing. You can use your familiar SQL to perform basic filtering and transformation operations, statistics and aggregation based on multiple kinds of time windows and even joining between multiple streams. With connectors provided, you can easily integrate HStreamDB with other external systems, such as MQTT Broker, MySQL, Redis and ElasticSearch. More connectors will be added. -
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IoTDB
Apache IoTDB
Apache IoTDB (Database for Internet of Things) is an IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud. Due to its light-weight architecture, high performance and rich feature set together with its deep integration with Apache Hadoop, Spark and Flink, Apache IoTDB can meet the requirements of massive data storage, high-speed data ingestion and complex data analysis in the IoT industrial fields. In the scene of factories, there are tens of devices under LAN network. IoTDB can be installed on a local controller server in the factory to receive data from those devices. The local controller server (normal PC or workstation) with IoTDB can provide the ability to persist data and query data with SQL-like interface. In addition, with TsFile-Sync tool, TsFiles on the local controller can be transmitted to the data center equipped with IoTDB instance in the cloud. -
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Eclipse Mosquitto
Eclipse Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
Eclipse Mosquitto is an open-source MQTT message broker from the Eclipse ecosystem. It implements MQTT versions 5.0, 3.1.1, and 3.1 for lightweight publish-and-subscribe communication. The project is designed for IoT, machine-to-machine messaging, telemetry, home automation, embedded devices, and distributed systems that need efficient event delivery. It includes the broker itself, C and C++ client libraries, and command-line tools for publishing, subscribing, request-response testing, password management, broker control, and signaling. Mosquitto is portable and can run on small devices, servers, containers, and many operating systems. Its main value is providing a mature, lightweight, widely adopted MQTT implementation for reliable messaging in constrained and production environments. -
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LavinMQ
Ultra quick message queue and streaming server
LavinMQ is a high-performance message queue and streaming server built for efficient message delivery. It implements AMQP 0-9-1 and MQTT 3.1.1, making it useful for applications that need reliable messaging, IoT communication, event processing, and backend service coordination. The server is written in Crystal, which helps it keep memory usage low while supporting high throughput. It is designed to handle very long queues, many client connections, and production workloads with minimal configuration. LavinMQ can be used as a lightweight alternative in RabbitMQ-compatible environments where AMQP-based clients are already common. Its main value is combining speed, low resource consumption, protocol compatibility, and operational simplicity in one open-source broker. -
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Arm Mbed OS
Platform operating system designed for the Internet of Things
Arm Mbed OS is an open source embedded operating system specifically designed for the Internet of Things. It’s packed with all the features you need to develop your next IoT product based on an Arm Cortex-M microcontroller efficiently, securely and rapidly. These include security foundations, cloud management services, and drivers for sensors and I/O devices. -
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MQTTnet
High performance .NET library for MQTT based communication
MQTTnet is a high-performance .NET library for MQTT-based communication. It provides an MQTT client and an MQTT server (broker) and supports the MQTT protocol up to version 5. TLS support for client and server (but not UWP servers). Extensible communication channels (e.g. In-Memory, TCP, TCP+TLS, WS). Lightweight (only the low-level implementation of MQTT, no overhead). Performance optimized (processing ~150.000 messages/second). Uniform API across all supported versions of the MQTT protocol. Tested on the local machine (Intel i7 8700K) with MQTTnet client and server running in the same process using the TCP channel. The app for verification is part of this repository and stored in /Tests/MQTTnet.TestApp.NetCore. List of connected clients available. Supports connected clients with different protocol versions at the same time. Able to publish its own messages (no loopback client required). Able to receive every message (no loopback client required). -
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myFP2ESP32-Dev WiFi ASCOM Focuser
ASCOM-INDI ESP32-Dev Wifi focuser
An ESP32-Dev WiFi focuser. DIY or PCB designs. (c) Robert Brown 2014-2025, Holger M, 2019-2021. All rights reserved. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without appropriate credit given to authors. Spreadsheet to calculate what stepper motor to use. https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/Documentation/Nema-Stepper-Motors.xlsx/download Spreadsheets to calculate CFZ https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfocuserpro2-esp32/files/CFZ%20Spreadsheets/CFZ%20Spreadsheets.zip/download Focuser Basics Guide (PDF) - shows how to derive the correct motor requirements for your system (mandatory reading) https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfocuserpro2-esp32/files/Documentation/Focuser%20Basics.pdf/download Part1: Download, Configuration and Programming https://youtu.be/90KeSspN3e0 Project is superceded by myESP32S3-N16R8 WiFi Focuser -
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SCADA-LTS
A comprehensive Supervisory Control, Data Acquisition, and Execution
SCADA-LTS is an advanced FOSS, web-based, multi-platform environment designed to build your own Supervisory Control, Data Acquisition, and Management Execution Software - SCADA/MES. Its architecture provides a robust foundation for complex industrial automation and monitoring. Optimized for Smart Infrastructure, it is highly capable of managing industrial PV/BESS, Smart buildings, municipal Water networks or Wastewater treatment, ANPR telemetry, City-wide lighting, and other diverse data administration workflows. Beyond standard use, SCADA-LTS serves as a secure "independent source of truth" in sandboxed or zero-trust environments. It enhances critical infrastructure with cyber-alarm functionality, emergency operation scenarios, and vital operational visibility. Developed since 2015 on behalf of Abil'I.T. and supported by a global community, the project focuses on stability, security, and modernizing the codebase to meet the demands of industry, defense, and wide-area distributed -
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AWS IoT Device SDK for Java
Java SDK for connecting to AWS IoT from a device
The AWS IoT Device SDK for Java enables Java developers to access the AWS IoT Platform through MQTT or MQTT over the WebSocket protocol. The SDK is built with AWS IoT device shadow support, providing access to thing shadows (sometimes referred to as device shadows) using shadow methods, including GET, UPDATE, and DELETE. It also supports a simplified shadow access model, which allows developers to exchange data with their shadows by just using getter and setter methods without having to serialize or deserialize any JSON documents. A new AWS IoT Device SDK is now available. It is a complete rework, built to improve reliability, performance, and security. We invite your feedback! The SDK is built on top of the Paho MQTT Java client library. Developers can choose from two types of connections to connect to the AWS IoT service. -
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AWS IoT Fleet Provisioning Library
Client library for using AWS IoT Fleet Provisioning service
The Fleet Provisioning library enables you to provision IoT devices without device certificates using the Fleet Provisioning feature of AWS IoT Core. For an overview of provisioning options available, see Device provisioning. This library has no dependencies on any additional libraries other than the standard C library, and therefore, can be used with any MQTT library. This library is distributed under the MIT Open Source License. This library has gone through code quality checks including verification that no function has a GNU Complexity score over 8, and checks against deviations from mandatory rules in the MISRA coding standard. Deviations from the MISRA C:2012 guidelines are documented under MISRA Deviations. This library has also undergone static code analysis using Coverity static analysis, and validation of memory safety through the CBMC automated reasoning tool. -
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AWS IoT Jobs library
Client library for using AWS IoT Jobs service on embedded devices
The AWS IoT Jobs library helps you notify connected IoT devices of a pending Job. A Job can be used to manage your fleet of devices, update firmware and security certificates on your devices, or perform administrative tasks such as restarting devices and performing diagnostics. It interacts with the AWS IoT Jobs service using MQTT, a lightweight publish-subscribe protocol. This library provides a convenience API to compose and recognize the MQTT topic strings used by the Jobs service. The library is written in C compliant with ISO C90 and MISRA C:2012, and is distributed under the MIT Open Source License. This library has gone through code quality checks including verification that no function has a GNU Complexity score over 8, and checks against deviations from mandatory rules in the MISRA coding standard. Deviations from the MISRA C:2012 guidelines are documented under MISRA Deviations. This library has also undergone both static code analysis from Coverity. -
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FreeRTOS AWS Reference Integrations
IoT operating system for microcontrollers.
FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Distributed freely under the MIT open source license, FreeRTOS includes a kernel and a growing set of software libraries suitable for use across industry sectors and applications. This includes securely connecting your small, low power devices to AWS Cloud services like AWS IoT Core or to more powerful edge devices running AWS IoT Greengrass. FreeRTOS is built with an emphasis on reliability and ease of use, and offers the predictability of long-term support releases. A microcontroller contains a simple, resource-constrained processor that can be found in many devices, including appliances, sensors, fitness trackers, industrial automation, and automobiles. Many of these small devices can benefit from connecting to the cloud or locally to other devices, but have limited compute power and memory capacity.
