You can look at device for device and create control software for each and one of them, we did it another way, we though of a black box device and created control software that works with everything that exists. One to unite them all.
VSCP (Very Simple Control Protocol) is a framework for IoT/m2m tasks. The framework defines methods to have a common device discovery, a common configuration, a common way to interface with remote devices and a common way to update firmware of devices built on different architectures. A server is available that runs on many platforms that have a webserver/websocket/rest/driver and tcp/ip interface with ssl security.
Documentation for VSCP is available at https://docs.vscp.org
Checkout with
git clone -j4 --recurse-submodules https://github.com/grodansparadis/vscp.gitA short introduction to VSCP is available here and here.
Documentation in different formats is available here.
Also there is a with many examples for different platforms and a HTML5 websocket UI repository.
The whole source code is published under the MIT license. Consider the different licenses of possible third party libraries too!
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
First a big thanks to my sponsors and here. Support them please. Every cent is valuable and there support has helped me and the project a lot.
The a big thank you to the following project that this code is built upon
- The excellent nlohmann json parser
- The excellent libexpat xml library
- The excellent mosquitto library
- The excellent spdlog library
- The excellent civetweb project
- The excellent mustache library
- And all other code I used to build this on.
Great things are built on the shoulders of giants. Thank you!
Copyright (C) 2000-2026 Ake Hedman, the VSCP project - MIT license.