List of devices compatible with Gladys 4

[Tlse-vins]

Here’s a summary of the debate I found:

@pierre-gilles

So to recap, there are 3 different requests in this thread:

1. A list of devices compatible with each service, directly within a service in Gladys
2. A list of devices compatible with Gladys, in Gladys but at the « global » Gladys level.
3. A list of devices compatible with Gladys in the Gladys documentation

All three are not mutually exclusive; we can certainly do several, but the source of the information must be the same. Otherwise, we all know how it will end up: after one update, one list will not be up to date compared to the others.

I think it makes sense to have these information entered in the Gladys repo in a config file since it is directly coupled with Gladys code. This allows the developer to modify the config file in the same PR that will add a compatibility, and thus remain consistent in every way.

This information must be internationalized, so there will be one file per language.

We need to put tests to ensure that if a device is added in one language, it is also added in another language, otherwise we will quickly find ourselves with developers filling out one language and not the other and the list will be desynchronized!

What do you think?

Personally, I am rather in favor of proposal 2) and 3), I think that 1) requires too complex work and will make the UI heavy everywhere in the services.

If you have ideas and wish to propose a PR for this, it will be with pleasure

@Tlse-vins

a doc in the form of a table with multiple columns:

• brand
• product name
• an image (optional)
• the product protocol
• type: buttons, lamp, sensor, camera, actuator
• the service that makes it work in Gladys
• development (color scheme: green ok, orange in progress, red not yet)
• a link for purchase (not convinced because the link can be dead which happens at jeedom)

@pierre-gilles

We must also think that some devices can be managed by different services, such as Xiaomi objects that can be used with xiaomi or zigbee2mqtt services.

Absolutely, we can indicate the list of compatible services in the table.