Closed dagargo closed 1 year ago
Consider supporting a list of paths for the definition file.
The benefits would be that during development, you would only have to change files in the source directory.
When the application is launched, it would look for a definition file in the same folder where it was launched from and then fall back to the system-wide definition file.
The idea is to implent it the same way it's in Elektroid.
This means that if the config file is found in ~/.config/overwitch/devices.json
, this will take preference over the file distributed with the package (and located with all the other resources).
See https://github.com/dagargo/elektroid#adding-and-reconfiguring-devices for more information.
This won't be in the 1.0 release but it will be in the 1.1.
Implemented in 819a13c54855016f3bc5daa3c4553b3113a88b96 as mentioned above.
Besides, a liboverwitch
shared library is installed with the binaries, which might be helpful for you. GLib
and the JSON parsing library are not needed and can be excluded from the library by passing some options to ./configure
(see the documentation for more details), which should help with embedded-like devices. In this case, the C
code definitions apply.
To add support for new devices without the need of new releases, we need to add a JSON file with the device definitions which could be overridden by the user.