Move the miio library to a folder in this repo

[afharo]

We are maintaining our own version of the miio library because the original dev stopped accepting PRs.

Maybe it makes sense to copy the library (the version in https://github.com/homebridge-xiaomi-roborock-vacuum/miio) to this repo so it's easier to maintain :)

[bedrin]

Probably worth copying https://github.com/tinkerhub/abstract-things as well

[bedrin]

And removing everything unrealted to non vacuum cleaners in this case

[afharo]

Do you think we need to go that low? Personally, I never found myself needing to change anything in that library (so far).

+1 on removing anything unrelated to vacuum cleaners during the migration process.

I think I have some time this Friday to do so :)

[bedrin]

thingbound/abstract-things#5

[afharo]

Personally, I don't think that's a change that requires moving the library. If you want to ensure the library debug logs the Things library logs, you can simply set the environment variable DEBUG=thing:*. More documentation about the debug library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug

[afharo]

And we can still publish a fork of it if really needed.

The reason for moving miio though, is because we are constantly modifying that library. The development of this plugin is tightly bound to that library and, on many occasions, it means changing both libraries.

We usually work around changing the miio library by calling this.device.call('method') in this module, which makes it hard to scale (and makes the index.js file to grow way over its means...

Ideally, miio should take care of talking to the robot (no matter what type of robot it is), and index.js should only take care of exposing those generalised standard methods to homebridge.

I'll try to work on that approach on Friday :)

[bedrin]

Looks like you’ll have a busy Friday )

[afharo]

Hahaha! I had a day off today, but my girlfriend is working so... having fun here :D