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Goal:
  * Like ESPEasy a web configurable IoT device
  * Usage of IoT devices by hobbyists without progrmming expirence
  * Adding plugins with low/mid level Python knowlage
  * Append plugins by community (GitHub)
  * Open source

Platform:
  * RaspberryPi, \*Pi (initially planned)
  * PC (for development and debugging)
  * ESP32
  * PyBoard ?
  * ~~ESP8266~~ too less memory :-(
  * Other platforms running MicroPython with 100 kByte free RAM (`gc.mem_free()`)

Programming Lanuage:
  * Hybrid-Python to fit all platforms:
    * CPython 3.4.x  (or higher) for Raspberry Pi and PC
    * MicroPython 1.9.4 (or higher) for ESP32 and PyBoard

User GUI:
  * Web server front end on the platform based on the project [MicroWebSrc](https://github.com/jczic/MicroWebSrv) which is already in Hybrid-Python

User CLI:
  * All funcionalitys are accessable by a command line interface via HTTP GET request, web page (HTML form), Telnet, ...

Plugin system:
  * Easiely extend by anyone
  * Unloadable plugins (import fails) are dismissed and don't affect other plugins
  * If nessecary intall with reduced plugin count

  * Gadget-plugins:
    * Interface to hardware sensors and actuators
    * Deliver variables/measurements (e.g. temperature, switch on/off, ...) to active gateway-plugins, rules, web interface, ...
    * Each gadget has its own partial web page form for configuration
    * A gadget plugin can be instanciated multiple times (e.g. many temperature sensors of same type)

  * Gateway-plugins:
    * Interface to external servers and brokers
    * Consume variables/measurements (e.g. temperature, switch on/off, ...) and deliver them to the configured server (e.g. MQTT, HTTP, Socket, InfluxDB, ...)
    * Can also support hardware access to transmission modules (e.g. LoRaWan, Philips Hue, ...)
    * Each gateway has its own partial web page form for configuration
    * A gateway can be instanciated multiple times

  * Command-plugins:
    * Extend cli with additional commands

  * rule-plugins:
    * Add rules to react on new measurements and call cli commands or set the values of other variable
    * Each rule has its own partial web page form for configuration

  * web-plugins:
    * Extend web front end with additional pages

Front-end-Languages:
  * Initial: English
  * Later: localisation