prevent auto-creation of device

if i install one of my own plugins, a device is created, removing this will remove the plugin too.

is there a way to have it installed without the device is beeing created ?

To be able to run, a plugin must have a device instance. You could make it invisible, though. If you really don’t want a device created, you could place your code in Startup Lua rather than a plugin.

Yeah, well its not really a plugin,

I just want to deliver a set of xml files to vera to manually add them into existing devices.

Maybe not the right approach doing that.