Hey everyone 👋 I'm stating to dwell

[lavish knot]

HI, if you browse back in this thread you will find similar challenges, of myself included. From where I stand, although each integration/addon is different, this cannot be resolved only by each person finding things out by themselves. I hope that the NabuCasa team can spend a bit of budget to provide better guidelines. For now.... I only learned by looking at many MANY other add-ons and I am still different in what I provided...but the latter because I got stuck and when it worked, stopped changing 🙂 or 😦

[topaz lance]

Hey @lavish knot, thank you for your reply. I agree, there is not a lot of guidelines anywhere 😄 It is sort of gatekeeping many people from developing some great add-ons. At least it has made me give up on a couple of other projects I wanted to bring to HA.

I would love to understand what is going on on the background when you install a plugin, and then what happens when you start it. What files are read in which order and at which point in the process.

This could help in explaining why sometimes you have all the possible files, and other times just one is enough for everything.

Do you have any good example repositories you came across that really helped you?

[lavish knot]

Hi, and sadly here my answer for 'good sample repo' is: it depends (also supporting earlier statements by the HA team 🙂 ). My main challenge was to get Chromium setup and for some sort of reason I could not get this installed on just any base-container, this took me a long time to find out btw, it worked fine when manually installed on the running container but not when deploying it via a Dockerfile to a new container...it had to do with the OS version. Since I have both a docker version as well as an add-on of that, this made it less easy too as I had two paths to maintain. I took a lot from grott and meters2ha but also not sure if these are 'good':)