Customize Emulator IDs

[joezimjs]

Is this a feature relevant to companion itself, and not a module?

• I believe this to be a feature for companion, not a module

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Describe the feature

I have 2 laptops that both have Companion installed on them. I switch between the 2 laptops by simply unplugging the dock from one of them and into the other. They both use the ethernet from the dock, which means that when I swap between them, they maintain the same local IP address, so I can use one tablet and keep it at the same address to load the companion emulator.

The only problem is that the emulators don't have the same ID, so I can't use the same emulator URL and just refresh it. For this reason, and just because it would be nice to have human readable IDs, I'd like the ability to edit the ID of emulators. If you don't want to be able to edit IDs that already exist, then at least be able to specify IDs on creation.

Usecases

1. If you have multiple emulators, being able to use a human-readable name as an identifier would be useful (granted, we do have Name's that can be used while selecting them from the emulator list)
2. Being able to match emulator IDs across multiple Companion instances

[robertskiba]

That's a really great idea. I already hat usecases where I gave the customer access to an emulator page to control somethin with his mobile phone and it would help to

• make an emulator URL more human-readable
• make an emulator URL recreatable in the worst case (deleting it accidentally).
• ok, a negative thing is that an emulator page could get easier to hack but if a perpetrator is in your network, it wouldn't stop him to have safer URLs like now.