Version 5 - testers and suggestions wanted

[AlexGustafsson]

Introduction

This plugin is being rewritten to improve stability and future maintainability.

The first of an unknown amount of betas has been published and is available here: https://github.com/AlexGustafsson/homebridge-wol/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta.1.

It can be installed like so:

npm install homebridge-wol@beta

I'm open to suggestions on things to improve and implement, so please let me know. I'll leave comments below on currently planned and suggested features.

Below are the changes as mentioned in the beta release.

Features

• Rewritten from the ground up in TypeScript for increased type safety and maintainability
• Aligned the project structure to the official plugin template to help onboard developers accustomed to the standard
• Streamlined, unified and simplified logs
• Configuration is rewritten with improved checking

Fixes

• Fixed issue with AJSF not supporting null as a default value, strengthening the compatibility with config-ui-x

Breaking changes

• ip has been renamed to host to more clearly tell that it supports hostnames such as my-computer.localdomain
• name is no longer mandatory and will default to My NetworkDevice
• log, logPinger and debugLog are deprecated. Instead use logLevel which is one of the following values. Defaults to Info
  • Debug
  • Info
  • Notice
  • Warning
  • Error
  • Critical
  • Alert
  • Emergency
  • None

[AlexGustafsson]

Suggested feature: allow a user to specify what service to expose. This would allow for exposing a speaker, TV, router or the like instead of just a switch. That way, a user may be able to choose between more icons in the Home app etc.

See #123.

[AlexGustafsson]

Suggested feature: add support for fakegato-history so that history is available in the Elgato Eve app.

Work has already been done in #115.

[AlexGustafsson]

Potential feature: Allow usage as a platform with auto-discovery which scans the network and adds devices it finds. Might be useful for some use cases, but I'm unsure if it'll be useful as it will only be able to automatically configure pinging and WoL, but not shutdown.

[AlexGustafsson]

Beta 2 has been published. It contains some fixes and updates. https://github.com/AlexGustafsson/homebridge-wol/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta.2.

[AlexGustafsson]

I think it's time to finally release this version. Closing.