Using a plugin multiple times (unipi-evok)

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Hey all!

Is it possible to use multiple instances of the same plugin? I’m planning on expanding my project, and I’m going to use 3 Unipi Neuron devices… they all have different IP’s but I’m not sure if the unipi-evok plugin can handle this?

Right now I have the following lines in my config

  "plugins": [
    {
      "plugin": "cron"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "mobile-frontend"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "unipi-evok",
      "url": "http://10.10.1.5"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "shell-execute"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "kodi",
      "customOpenCommands": []
    },
    {
      "plugin": "mqtt",
      "active": true,
      "brokers": [
        {
          "brokerId": "default",
          "host": "localhost",
          "username": "user",
          "password": "hunter2"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "latitude": 58.226169,
      "longitude": 1.834548,
      "plugin": "sunrise",
      "active": true
    }
  ],

Do I just expand my config with extra IP’s like this?

    {
      "plugin": "unipi-evok",
      "url": "http://10.10.1.5"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "unipi-evok",
      "url": "http://10.10.1.6"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "unipi-evok",
      "url": "http://10.10.1.7"
    },

Has anyone tested this before?

@jan-teunis said in Using a plugin multiple times (unipi-evok):

Is it possible to use multiple instances of the same plugin? I’m planning on expanding my project, and I’m going to use 3 Unipi Neuron devices… they all have different IP’s but I’m not sure if the unipi-evok plugin can handle this?

No, that’s generally not possible. However, I can modify the plugin to make it possible to multiple boards with a single plugin. An easy way of handling this will be to treat the URL in the plugin as the default address and to add an optional URL field to the device configuration. This way, the addresses for the second and third board needs to specified per device. It will be a fair amount of work to extend the plugin implementation. At the moment I cannot give an indication about when I can look into this. If someone else is ready like to look into this, pull requests are welcome!