Door Configuration

[lazypower]

Rendering the door/lock configuration is currently going to be a little painful if we ever change our door configurations on the VEM150 line. This isn't likely to spring up un-announced, however I did want to flag that we'd like to use a shorter-form to specify the configuration, and render a door configuration based on a simple map.

[edaniszewski]

would we want a similar issue opened for the i2c plugin (which exposes the lock devices) so we could also use that shorter-form to render lock configs?

[lazypower]

The i2c chart has the template generation pattern, I'm not sure if we want to move it further down the dependency tree into the app, or a sidecar script, but yeah, feels like there's opportunity for these tasks to be linked and a uniform generator/template pattern emerge.

[edaniszewski]

I think realistically moving it down somewhere would be nice, since the readability/maintainability of that template generation is uhh.. tribal knowledge and a headache at best.

I don't fully know if it could be pushed down to the plugin level, but it certainly could be put into some init/sidecar script. Possibly adding in support for some config template rendering stuff into the SDK would be a good idea, since if we are using it for one plugin, its entirely possible it would be useful for others, so getting generalized baked-in capabilities for that feels useful.