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Convention alternatives for AI agents.

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🏡 The Homie Convention: a lightweight MQTT convention for the IoT

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#1

Homie Esp8266

Similarity 136Trust 90Excellent 93

💡 ESP8266 framework for Homie, a lightweight MQTT convention for the IoT

1.4K starsMar 6, 2026 pushrobotics-iotHTMLIoT
$ npx skills add homieiot/homie-esp8266
#2

Paho.Mqtt.C

Similarity 130Trust 90Excellent 100

An Eclipse Paho C client library for MQTT for Windows, Linux and MacOS. API documentation: https://eclipse-paho.github.io/paho.mqtt.c/

2.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.c
#3

HTTP Shortcuts

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Android app to create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitrary HTTP requests and more

1.7K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotKotlinIoT
$ npx skills add Waboodoo/HTTP-Shortcuts
#4

ThingsGateway

Similarity 130Trust 94Excellent 100

ThingsGateway is a cross-platform, high-performance gateway for edge data acquisition and IoT connectivity. Developed with .NET 8, it offers a suite of powerful tools, including advanced PLC communication libraries and debugging software.

1.4K starsJun 3, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC#IoT
$ npx skills add ThingsGateway/ThingsGateway
#5

Openhab Core

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Core framework of openHAB

1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add openhab/openhab-core
#6

Arduino Mqtt

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 96

MQTT library for Arduino

1.1K starsApr 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add 256dpi/arduino-mqtt
#7

Sagooiot

Similarity 125Trust 86Excellent 87

SagooIOT是一个基于golang开发的开源的企业级物联网基础开发平台。负责设备管理和协议数据管理,支持跨平台的物联网接入及管理方案,平台实现了物联网开发相关的基础功能,基于该功能可以快速的搭建起一整套的IOT相关的业务系统。旨在通过可复用的组件,减少开发工作,简化和加速物联网开发交付。适配多种接入协议(TCP,MQTT,UDP,CoAP,HTTP,GRPC,RPC等)

862 starsMay 30, 2026 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add sagoo-cloud/sagooiot
#8

Esp Mqtt

Similarity 125Trust 86Excellent 86

ESP32 mqtt component

727 starsMay 29, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add espressif/esp-mqtt
#9

Aily Blockly

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

AI IDE for hardware development, support Arduino, MicroPython, ESP32, STM32, RP2040, Nrf5x...

2.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add ailyProject/aily-blockly
#10

Home Assistant Config

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

:house: My Home Assistant configuration, a bit different that others :) Be sure to :star2: this repository for updates!

2.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotIoTClaude Code
$ npx skills add frenck/home-assistant-config
#11

Paho.Mqtt.Java

Similarity 123Trust 81Promising 69

Eclipse Paho Java MQTT client library. Paho is an Eclipse IoT project.

2.3K starsAug 14, 2024 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.java
#12

Tuya Cloudcutter

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

A tool that disconnects Tuya IoT devices from the cloud, allowing them to run completely locally.

1.8K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter
#13

OpenBK7231T App

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 100

Open source firmware (Tasmota/Esphome replacement) for BK7231T, BK7231N, BL2028N, T34, XR809, W800/W801, W600/W601, BL602, LN882H, Realtek chips and more

2.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App
#14

Internet Of Trash

Similarity 122Trust 81Strong 80

A list of IOT devices that are garbage

550 starsJun 5, 2026 pushrobotics-iotIoTClaude Code
$ npx skills add unixorn/internet-of-trash
#15

FastBee

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 99

FastBee开源物联网平台,简单易用,可用于搭建物联网平台以及二次开发和学习。适用于智能家居、智慧办公、智慧社区、农业监测、水利监测、工业控制等。

2.2K starsApr 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add kerwincui/FastBee
#16

Rumqtt

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 99

The MQTT ecosystem in rust

2.1K starsMay 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotRustIoT
$ npx skills add bytebeamio/rumqtt

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