Universal Plugin Feature Request - Deactivate/"act like I'm not here"

Plugins & Plugin Development General Plugin Discussion
#1

Hi All,

Any of you who have dealt with Vera support know that invariably you’re asked to remove plugin X/Y to facilitate troubleshooting.

As we often have a lot of time and effort to get our systems working, it’d be great if there was a way to “disable” a plugin so that it doesn’t execute any code/functions and be little more than a Web UI element. Once it’s been proven that the plug has no impact on the system it could be enabled with the click of a mouse.

Is this a feasible addition on a plugin level, or would it need to be built into Vera’s code?

BlueSmurf.

#2

Each Vera device is already created with a “disabled” attribute.

Not many plugins heed this attribute… Adding support could be as simple as adding a single line of code to the plugins startup code.

All of my plugins (Wink Connect, Caseta Connect, EVL3Vista) honor this attribute, and do minimal required tasks before exiting.

#3

Support would only trust it if it was a VERA supported feature.
So they would still ask you to remove your plugins.