Meta: Should this card be renamed?

[dermotduffy]

I suspect that (reasonably) frigate-hass-card may suggest to people that this card is Frigate only, when it actually supports any generic cameras and is easily extended to support advanced functionality for other camera types (e.g. already supports more advanced motionEye functionality).

Example new name: camera-card

Pros to renaming:

• Broader appeal to users & developers.
• No loss in functionality for Frigate (will always be a 1st class supported camera).

Cons to renaming:

• Less obviously related to Frigate for people new to the ecosystem.
• Potential disruption to (all) existing users.

What do you think?

[felipecrs]

I think this is totally worth it. The name certainly prevents people from even trying it out.

I like the camera-card suggestion, especially considering that there isn't one already in Hass.

But here are other suggestions:

• extended-camera-card
• x-camera-card (Elon upvotes this one)
• better-camera-card
• ultimate-camera-card
• custom-camera-card
• pro-camera-card
• camera-card-plus
• improved-camera-card
• advanced-camera-card
• enhanced-camera-card
• next-camera-card

While I really like camera-card and I think this card is indeed in par to be THE camera-card, my main concern about it is that it will be harder to credit or to refer to it.

Imagine in a conversation:

Hey, you should use camera-card, it is really good.

(Which camera-card? is this an official thing? it may require to say "@dermotduffy's camera-card")

While something like x-camera-card would not require such disambiguation.

[dermotduffy]

Thank you for the feedback. Similarly, I am currently thinking this is worth it. First though, I'd like to understand the implications on HACS users, i.e. "How bad will this be for them?":

https://discord.com/channels/606225571898327139/1165331424384135219/1165331424384135219

[skynet01]

i like the ultimate-camera-card