RIOT
RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT (by RIOT-OS)
HomeSpan
HomeKit Library for the Arduino-ESP32 (by HomeSpan)
| RIOT | HomeSpan | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 12 | |
| 5,499 | 1,803 | |
| 1.0% | 2.2% | |
| 9.9 | 9.4 | |
| 8 days ago | about 15 hours ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
RIOT
Posts with mentions or reviews of RIOT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-04.
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Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040
RIOT would be another alternative
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
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Comp Sci Student Interested in Embedded
RIOT-OS is somewhat popular in academia, it tries to be very approachable but there are still plenty of low hanging fruits with all kinds of hardware and you can use it for software and thesis projects.
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Open source embedded projects
Just one example: https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
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Is Mbed still relevant?
You could also take a look at RIOT-OS. http://riot-os.org
- Woke up today to my first ever pull request of one of my public repos! Wait... oh... oh god...
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Looking for a GitHub repo which contains unit tests
RIOT-OS has a lot of unit tests for all the boards they support. And it's written in C. https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/tests
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What's the best book and microcontroller to learn embedded design?
Another option is using RIOT-OS. But that unfortunately doesn't support PWM for the Weact. It does support PWM for the Bluepill and Blackpill STM32f103 and the Nucleo-f446 After quick search. \ https://riot-os.org
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What should I buy to begin learning embedded systems development?
If you want to use C, I would suggest trying out RIOT-OS. It's a modern embedded operating system, written in C and focussed on IOT. It works on a lot of different boards. https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
- Best kit to get started using C.
- RIOT-OS 2022.10 · Release Notes
HomeSpan
Posts with mentions or reviews of HomeSpan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-10.
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How I built a custom Homekit thermostat for 40€
There is one library called Homespan, but this is intended for programming ESP32 in the Arduino environment. This is much easier and beginner friendly, but I wanted something more advanced and challenging :). As I said in the beginning, I wanted to get more familiar with the ESP32 environment and the arduino-esp32 project offers a lot of abstractions. That’s why I opted for the ESP-IDF framework instead.
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Does anyone know an alternative to Velux Active to get this into HomeKit?
and https://github.com/HomeSpan/HomeSpan
- Any possibility to update this smart switch
- Homekit BLE communication
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Sit-stand table
You can check out Homespan. Together with an ESP32 you can mostly hook it up with whatever appliance you want. Some soldering/tinkering might be neccesary though, but it’s really great.
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esp32 Halloween app suggestions
If you have an iPhone or iPad you can even do it through apple's HomeKit using the HomeSpan library for ESP32-Arduino. It's really well documented and that way you don't have to program a new app for your phone in addition to the esp32 code.
- Curated embedded code to learn from
- Homekit RGB LED Status Monitor
- Arduino IDE libraries for HomeKit development?
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Water level sensor
Also, for esp32 the situation is much better. As arduino core for esp32 is rtos based, it is possible to simply use espressif hap sdk from arduino corr or directly from bundled RTOS. Esp32 is much faster, SRP, which is the most time consuming, takes a second on it, while it could take up to 20+ seconds on esp8266. There’s also a nice HomeSpan app example for esp32/arduino https://github.com/HomeSpan/HomeSpan. Author calls it “library”, but it is more like a complete app, which can be highly customized and, I suppose, it is also possible to reuse just a necessary parts of it, just like a library.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RIOT and HomeSpan you can also consider the following projects:
zephyr - Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Arduino-HomeKit-ESP8266 - Native Apple HomeKit accessory implementation for the ESP8266 Arduino core.
FreeRTOS-Kernel - FreeRTOS kernel files only, submoduled into https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS and various other repos.
esp-homekit-sdk
pico-sdk
IRremoteESP8266 - Infrared remote library for ESP8266/ESP32: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols. Based on: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote/