Development environment

We will see here how to set up an efficient development environment between a test Pi and a Windows PC for editing the code and maintaining the GitHub repository.

This page concerns the Jeedom Core but this method can be used for plugin development.

Certainly, for quick edits of a few files, we can use the plugin JeeXplorer directly on Jeedom. But it is quickly tedious, and you then have to report all the changes to the local repository or directly to GitHub. This is not the most practical.

Principe

• Set up a test Pi with Jeedom and a Samba share to access it from the PC.
• Duplicate the repository locally with Sublime Merge.
• Implement Sublime Text for editing code from the repository with synchronization on the test Pi.

Sublime Merge and Sublime Text are certainly paid (a low price with 3 years of update), but are very light, fast, easily customizable and very complete without requiring lots of plugins / packages. Also if you don’t take a license you can use them normally, you will just get a little popup every now and then with a button Cancel !

This method is also possible with other tools, such as Atom (which will require some packages) and GitHub Desktop.

Pi test / development

The first thing to do if you are developing Core functions or a plugin : Set up a test configuration. Indeed, we do not develop on a production configuration !

For the installation of Jeedom, the documentation is there : Installation on Raspberry Pi.

Warning, prefer an SSD to an SD card !

Once Jeedom is installed, install Samba, in SSH :

sudo apt-get install samba -y

Configure a password for www-data (the root of Jeedom) :

sudo smbpasswd www-data then enter your Password.

Edit the samba configuration :

sudo nano / etc / samba / smb.conf

Add :

wins support = yes

[jeedomRoot]
path = / var / www / html
browsable = yes
writable = yes
force user = www-data
force group = www-data
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

Et redémarrez samba:

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

Sous Windows, dans un explorateur de fichier, entrez l’adresse IP du Pi \\192.168.x.x

Faites un clic droit sur jeedomRoot puis Connecter un lecteur réseau...

Sous Windows, vous avez donc maintenant un Disque Réseau jeedomRoot !

Mise en place du repository local

Pour dupliquer le repository en local and pouvoir travailler dessus, nous allons récupérer Sublime Merge portable.

Récupérer également Sublime Text portable 64bit.

Décompressez les deux archives and placez les dans C:\Program Files.

Indiquez à Sublime Merge l’éditeur de fichiers :

Puis clonez le repository. Ici, si vous avez les droits sur le repository du Core, clonez le, sinon forkez le sur votre compte GitHub and clonez votre fork.

File / Clone Repository …

Mise en place de l’édition

Dans Sublime Text, Project / Edit Project, définissez le répertoire de votre repository :

{
  "folders":
  [
    {
      "name": "__GitHub Jeedom Core__",
      "path": "W:\\_ GitHub-Repos _ \\ JeedomCore"
    },
    {
      "name": "___Pi_JeedomAlpha___",
      "path": "\\\\192.168.0.110\\jeedomRoot"
    }
  ]
}

Here, adding the path of the test Pi is not mandatory, but it is still practical.

So you can now, in Sublime Text, directly edit the files of the local repository. Changes to these files will appear in Sublime Merge, where you can commit all or part of each file, or roll back the changes if that doesn’t work.

Now, it remains to test these code changes on the test Jeedom.

For that, you can of course copy the modified files to your Pi using the samba share on your PC. Or not ! When you edit ten files in different places, it will quickly become painful !

We will therefore configure Sublime Text so that, when you save a file, it will copy it directly to the Pi !

Go to the directory C:\ Program Files \ SublimeText3 \ Data \ Packages \ User and create an onSaveCopy.py file. Edit it and, after modifying the correct paths, save the following code:

import sublime, sublime_plugin, bone
from shutil import copyfile

gitHub_repoCore = "W:\\_ GitHub-Repos _ \\ JeedomCore"
rpi_root = "\\\\ 192.168.0.110 \\ jeedomRoot"

class EventListener (sublime_plugin.EventListener ):
  def on_post_save_async (self, view):
    fullPath = view.file_name()
    path, baseName = os.path.split (fullPath)
    if gitHub_repoCore in path:
      rpi_path = fullPath.replace (gitHub_repoCore, rpi_root)
      copyfile (fullPath, rpi_path)

Et voilà !

A chaque fois que vous sauvez un fichier, si celui-ci fait partie du repository local, Sublime Text va également le copier au bon endroit sur votre Pi. Ctrl-S, F5 sur le Pi and voilà ! Si tout est bon, stage/commit/push dans Sublime Merge.

Si vous annulez des modifications, en faisant un Discard dans Sublime Merge, pensez à faire un clic-droit, Open in Editor, and Ctrl-S pour le remettre sur le Pi.

Et bien sûr, attention quand vous mettez à jour le Pi, vous allez écraser les fichiers du Core que vous avez modifié.

Vous pouvez bien sûr suivre la même méthode pour mettre en place vos repository and synchronisation sur vos plugins.