[bduerst]

How would that work? Would there be a set of standard drivers that Crows Next interacts with, that you need to have for your devices?

It would be nice if this turned out to be the "VLC Player" of home hardware, where you could fire it up and expect it to work with most devices.

That would take a ton of work on Crows Nest's part though.

[ianawilson]

The idea is that Crowsnest organizes what devices can do into capabilities, and anyone can build a plugin for anything using our device integration framework. A plugin maps between what Crowsnest knows as capabilities and the actual calls that need to be made to the device. Of course, we can't build something for every device, so this framework will be open source with the idea that anyone can use plugins already created for existing devices, and hopefully we can engage the community to contribute and maintain these for devices as new ones are created. As soon as we release this, we're going to seed the community with a handful of integrations that we'll maintain. And if there is anything of particular interest to our users, we'd love to support that.

We've also been toying with the idea of using some device discovery so that devices can tell Crowsnest what they are capable of without needing to build a formal plugin for it.