Question: Temporally upload an app till dev respond (using new ID/Name) for testing to test ch

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Question:
If i have an app that the developer don’t respond to.

Can i upload the “same” but modified app but in a different name/id.
So users can to test on it, till the dev respond? And after that let the dev take over again?
Or is this no no?

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What’s the app?

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This is possible. You can publish test versions/apps without certification, I also do this often when I’m building an app for a device I don’t own.

You can’t “merge” apps, but you can send a PR to the original developer with your changes, if the developer has a public GitHub repository

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@Simon_Salvin Not any special app just in general.
I read on the forum sometimes the apps have gone “dead”
Yesterday or something @Drako74 was taking about the issue of “dead” apps one e.g sonoff

Ok @smarthomesven good to know thanks

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Indeed, I was thinking of the Backup Centre app. A functionality I had been hoping for ever since I got my Homey Pro, too be able to do local backups to network storage, and restore. I really really want to love that app and for it to work. But (and I do believe from the forum page I am not the only one) no matter what I try I can not get the restore too work. It does a backup to my NAS just fine (although I did have to down grade my NAS’s SMB from version 3 to 2, which isn’t particularly desired).

But there hasn’t been a response from the app developer to anyone’s posts in a while, which is a tragic shame, as the app has enormous potential.

It’s not the only app, just the only one I can think of off the top of my head right now.

Perhaps there should be a rule about apps having to have a forum topic page, and if the developer doesn’t respond within 6 months, it’s then fair game for other devs to create their own version or something like that…

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You can’t “merge” apps, but you can send a PR to the original developer with your changes, if the developer has a public GitHub repository

Or just send the app in a zip, it’s only just js code.
No binary to revers engineer

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@Drako74
I might take this on:
Backup Center (You know I have done some mods to it, but the dev it not responding)

I really don’t like to upload to public, and to keep/do support on stuff that is not mine, from the beginning.

But still like to keep an app like this alive.
And since cli seems not to be an option