# Question: Temporally upload an app till dev respond (using new ID/Name) for testing to test ch **URL:** \ **Category:** Developers\ **Created:** [November 6, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834 "2026-11-06T00:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Nono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mike\_Nono](https://community.homey.app/u/Mike_Nono)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/1 "2026-11-06T00:18:23Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Simon\_Salvin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/simon_salvin/32/144694_2.png) [@Simon\_Salvin](https://community.homey.app/u/Simon_Salvin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/2 "2026-11-06T00:34:56Z")
What’s the app? ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 7:49am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/3 "2026-11-06T07:49:05Z")
> [@Mike\_Nono](#): > > 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? 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. > [@Mike\_Nono](#): > > And after that let the dev take over again? 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 ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Nono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mike\_Nono](https://community.homey.app/u/Mike_Nono)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 8:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/4 "2026-11-06T08:55:28Z")
@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 ---
**Author:** ![Drako74](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/drako74/32/150506_2.png) [@Drako74](https://community.homey.app/u/Drako74)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/5 "2026-11-06T09:45:32Z")
> [@Mike\_Nono](#): > > Yesterday or something @Drako74 was taking about the issue of “dead” apps 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… ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Nono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mike\_Nono](https://community.homey.app/u/Mike_Nono)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/6 "2026-11-06T20:05:12Z")
> 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 ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Nono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mike\_Nono](https://community.homey.app/u/Mike_Nono)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/question-temporally-upload-an-app-till-dev-respond-using-new-id-name-for-testing-to-test-ch/161834/7 "2026-11-06T20:25:50Z")
@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