# marcoschwartz/aREST

A RESTful environment for Arduino

Repository: https://github.com/marcoschwartz/aREST
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/arest
Homepage: http://aREST.io/
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-12-21T18:24:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 68/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 58, release rhythm 62, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4530, "days_push": 255, "days_rel": 255, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1201, forks 270 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:58.204904+00:00)

## What it is
aREST is a C++ library that exposes a REST API on Arduino boards and ESP8266/ESP32 WiFi chips, allowing remote control and monitoring of hardware over HTTP, serial, Bluetooth, BLE, or MQTT via the aREST cloud. It lets sketches expose commands and variables as REST endpoints with minimal code.

## Use cases
- control an Arduino over WiFi from a REST API
- build an IoT device with ESP8266 and control it remotely
- read sensor values from an ESP32 via HTTP endpoints
- control Arduino pins over serial or Bluetooth
- connect microcontrollers to a cloud dashboard via MQTT

## When to choose
- you want a quick REST interface on Arduino or ESP boards with minimal code
- you need remote hardware control across HTTP, serial, Bluetooth, or MQTT transports
- you want simple cloud connectivity for ESP8266/ESP32 devices

## When to avoid
- you need a production-grade IoT platform with fine-grained security and scaling
- you use non-Arduino embedded platforms or bare-metal firmware without the Arduino framework
- you require local-only operation without any cloud dependency and need advanced routing features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: api-framework, http-server, iot, middleware
- domain: iot, embedded-systems, apis
- platform: embedded, iot, cpp
- tags: arduino, esp8266, esp32, rest-api, mqtt, iot-cloud, hardware-control, automation

## Member repositories
- marcoschwartz/aREST (main) score 68

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.204904+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:20:42.423756+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/marcoschwartz/aREST (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.204904+00:00, sha 059db2f628c6)
  - homepage: http://aREST.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:27:51.820766+00:00, sha 6f89e4cda908)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.