Hi, I often read comments about people discussing different things they would like to do with Indigo and I understand many of those niche features will never make it into Indigo as an organic feature.
I also understand many of the plug-in developers code for themselves and are generous enough to upload their plug-in for others who find them useful. I also know there is a donation button for existing plug-ins, but what does not exist (to my knowledge) is a mechanism to kickstart plug-in development for those of us who are not coders.
So I propose a plug-in bounty program - In my mind it could work like this.
1. Someone has a use case for a plug-in and is interested in seeing it developed.
2. That person offers up a bounty amount and invites others who would be interested in the plug-in to support it by adding to the first user’s bounty.
3. If and when the dollar amount is high enough to warrant effort by one of the many skilled plug-in developers here - he or she declares they will develop the plug-in.
4. Those who have signed up for the plug-in and offered a bounty amount use the plug-in donation button to send money to the developer.
Interested in what others think (good or bad) - and if anyone has any suggestion to cover anything missing.
Pending approval from Matt and Jay - I would like to offer up a use case for the idea.
I’m willing to add 100 dollars to a plug-in bounty for my favorite HA gadget - Camect
Camect is a video recording device that does a phenomenal job at detecting various items in your video feeds - best of all it is all done on a local machine (it is not cloud based). It has an API but way beyond my ability to code a plug-in. Details on Camect here and below that link to info about the API.
https://camect.com
https://github.com/camect/camect-py
if this bounty idea is OK with Matt and Jay I’m hoping others are interested and will add to the bounty.