Create demo docker image with virtual devices

[hfedcba]

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[spali]

my suggestion
could just be some basic configuration available as package like openweather, just with a "working" setup.

• should provide some basic virtual device xml's
  • simple switch
  • simple boolean state (i.e. light)
  • simple analog output (i.e. values 0-255)
  • ...
• maybe use the already existing openweather extension to trigger the examples devices
• scripts which provides some example logic
• script with is triggered by the package installation that setup everything.

then a docker image which automatically install this package.

[hfedcba]

Sounds good and should be quickly done! There should probably also be a device, that generates random output.

[spali]

What about a "dynamic" virtual device configurable with just xml's?
A Homegear extension which generates automatically devices based on the device xml files? This would also reduce the effort for creating own simple devices.
I know I raise another topic here, but would also help here so the sample devices could be made without any coding, just defining the xml's ;)

I have seen, there are already some possibilities with the <run_program> in the xml files. Which could then be used to generate some random output devices.
Just had problems with it last time I tried it, the defined script started randomly a few minutes after Homegear instead directly after the start. Maybe there is some more testing and improvement needed in this functionality.

[hfedcba]

Hmm, run_program should work actually. The program should be executed, when all physical interfaces are connected. I will test it again the next days ;-).

What exactly do you have in mind with the virtual device? How should devices be generated automatically based on the xml file?

[spali]

Thought to generate (add) the device automatically. But now I think this is maybe wrong, because xml is equal to a device type not a device.
There must be anyway a script to setup everything, so we should add the devices there.