Mongoose OS for IoT prototyping

Posted Sep 12, 2017 17:20 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588)
Parent article: Mongoose OS for IoT prototyping

MongooseOS is great stuff, but PlatformIO is a similarly targetted embedded platform with a bit more permissive (Apache 2) License. I've played with both on the esp8266 and esp32 series microcontrollers to build little IoT (the S is for security) devices.

http://platformio.org/

Mongoose OS for IoT prototyping

Posted Sep 12, 2017 19:05 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

(the S is for security)

Interesting (telling?) to see that you left ‘S‘ out of ‘IoT‘..

Mongoose OS for IoT prototyping

Posted Sep 12, 2017 20:11 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link]

That is a long running joke in the infosec community about IoT I always laugh at because it is true. If you follow Matthew Garrett any and watch him own device after device you'll realize it currently is where computing was in the 90s when it comes to security.

Mongoose OS for IoT prototyping

Posted Sep 21, 2017 10:01 UTC (Thu) by sergey.lyubka (guest, #118679) [Link]

Mongoose OS and Platformio are very different.

Platformio is a build system and a library manager. It does not provide it's own functionality, it wraps an existing toolchain in an easy to use shape.

Mongoose OS, however, DOES provide tons of functionality on top of the native SDK. For example, an integration with major cloud providers like AWS IoT and Google IoT Core, the configuration subsystem, JavaScript engine for prototyping, etc etc - something that is completely out of scope of PlatformIO.

There is a bit of overlap between the two - because Mongoose OS also wraps a native toolchain into an easy to use build system. Despite this overlap, Mongoose OS and Platformio are totally different things, don't mix the two.