Export settings

[retog]

I would like to share my settings with the rest of my family, but I'm not finding a way to export/import.

[ekux44]

Moods are the only user content that LampShade supports exporting/importing today (as URLs through the standard Android sharing system).

Power users have been working around this limitation by using apps like Titanium Backup (see discussions on the LampShade G+ community).

This feature has been requested since the early days of LampShade, but stalled as there was no clear best way to implement this. After considering many possible approaches I'm now leaning towards:

• representing the data as json (moods, groups, devices)
• syncing the data through an App Folder in Google Drive

Technical challenges:

• one last chance to refactor devices (bulbs & groups) sql tables before committing to supporting decentralized data
• add fields to moods, groups, devices tables to sync/local-delete/full-delete/etc state of each row
• integrate with Google Drive

[retog]

Thanks @ekux44!

I would be happy to see the possibility to do the json export even without the google drive integration and being able to save the file to the sdcard or phone storage.