Additional "device_id" field in config.json about homie-esp8266 HOT 6 CLOSED

@jpmens This is what I wanted to do, an additional device_id field in the JSON configuration file. It would adhere to the following rules, as stated in the convention:

Each device must have a unique device ID. This ID MAY be composed of lowercase letters from a to z, numbers from 0 to 9, and it MAY contain -, but MUST NOT start or end with a -.

@hoalex an Homie.useNameForPublish(true); method would not fit as Homie sketches are meant to be portable.

Does it sound good to both of you?

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This will land in 1.3.0! The new device_id field is at the root of the JSON config.

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name can contain a descriptive text such as Light relay in living room, which is great because it allows, say, a Web interface to display this clearly. As an avid hater of white space in topic names (and file system path names) I think this would lead to some confusion. (Of course people could suppress white space in name if they don't want it (light-relay-in-living-room).

I tend to think this calls for an additional setting (sub_topic ?) which ought to be in the configuration, as we did for base_topic in #44.

My 0.01c 😄

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Sounds perfect 👍 Thanks for looking into it!

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Released!

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