Duplicate connection button

[phillipivan]

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

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

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched for similiar existing issues

Describe the feature

Its common for me to be working with or setting up a reasonable number of companion connections to devices of the same type, where most of the config is identical between units (ie only the IP and Label differ). It would speed things up if an existing connection could be duplicated, and it would appear as a new connection instance with the same config and a new label - similar to the duplicate action button.

I would expect the newly created connection would not inherit any actions or feedbacks from the reference connection, as that would complicate things greatly.

A duplicate connection would appear immediately beneath the reference connection in the connection list (ie in the same collection if in one).

Perhaps the same icon from the duplicate action function could appear here:

Usecases

Setting up large configs with many instances of the same connection type with mostly shared config details.

Such as this afternoon's job:

[premultiply]

Same here.

Adding lots of devices of the same connection type could be improved a lot by adding a clone button.

[phillipivan]

In fact your camera module @premultiply is a prime use case for us. We run somewhere on the order of 40 instances of it, but there are only 3 or 4 different camera types, so within a single camera type the only config that is changing is IP and label.