Try Hono without installing locally

We are providing a publicly accessible Eclipse Hono™ sandbox environment at hono.eclipseprojects.io. The main purpose of the system is to provide an environment for experimenting with devices and how to connect them to Hono without the need for setting up a local instance.

Accessing the Sandbox

The sandbox hosts a Hono instance consisting of the components listed in the table below. The components can be accessed as described in the Getting started Guide.

Take note

• The sandbox is intended for testing purposes only. Under no circumstances should it be used for any production use case. It is also not allowed to register with nor publish any personally identifiable information to any of the sandbox’s services.
• You can use the sandbox without revealing who you are or any information about yourself. The APIs of the Device Registry running on the sandbox can be used anonymously for creating tenants, register devices and add credentials. In order to minimize the risk of dissemination of data, all tenants, devices and credentials are deleted periodically.
• We do not collect nor share with third parties any of the data you provide when registering tenants, devices and credentials. We also do not inspect nor collect nor share with third parties any of the data your devices publish to the sandbox.
• Play fair! The sandbox’s computing resources are (quite) limited. The number of devices that can be registered per tenant is therefore limited to 10.
• The sandbox will be running the latest Hono release or milestone (if available). However, we may also deploy a more recent nightly build without further notice.
• In order to minimize the risk of collisions of device identities and credentials and to reduce the risk of others guessing your identifiers, you are advised to use non-trivial, hard-to-guess tenant and device identifiers (e.g. a UUID).
• The Apache Artemis instance we use for brokering events is configured with a maximum queue size of 1MB, i.e. you can only buffer up to 1 MB of events (per tenant) without having any consumer connected that actually processes the events. Once that limit is reached, no more events will be accepted by the protocol adapters for the corresponding tenant. In addition to that, events that are not consumed will automatically be removed from the queue(s) after five minutes.
• The sandbox exposes Hono’s API endpoints on TLS (>= 1.2) secured ports which are configured with a Let’s Encrypt certificate so you should not need to configure a specific trust store on your client in order to interact with them.
• The command line client binary is available from the downloads page and can be used to consume telemetry/event messages from the sandbox and send commands to devices as described in the Getting Started Guide