Deconz-rest-plugin: Feature Request: configurable user data directory

@marthoc deCONZ all configuration data used by deCONZ is indeed stored in $HOME/.local/share/dresden-elektronik/deCONZ. If needed we can add an command line option to use a different directory, this might also become handy in debugging situations.

Beside that only ZigBee network settings — like panid, network key, channel, etc. — are stored on the RaspBee/ConBee directly. Future versions will keep these parameters also in the configuration directory, for more reliable network operation.

Thanks @manup. I think my particular problem is related to developing for Hass.io (the containerized version of Home Assistant) - but a command-line option to store user data would be very helpful in this situation and the general Docker scenario, and you are right probably for debugging purposes too.

@marthoc You can use a symbolic link or for the Hass.io addon you can change the location of the home directory

export HOME=/data

or at Docker level:

ENV HOME=/data

@snozzlebert Yes, changing the homedir is what I’m doing now in my Hass.io addon. Unfortunately it’s not especially transparent to the user where the data is - even if you change the homedir to, for example, /config/deconz, it means that the data gets written to /config/deconz/.local/share/dresden-elektronik/deCONZ. Which means for the average user /config/deconz looks empty because most clients hide dot files by default. Would be much better to be able to specify the data dir as /config/deconz and have the files appear in there directly. I’m not crazy about a symlink because its a workaround and probably more prone to breaking.

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