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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright (c) 2021-2025 community-scripts ORG
+# Author: YourName
+# License: MIT | https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/LICENSE
+# Source: https://example.com/project
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# ADDON TEMPLATE - Use this as starting point for new addon scripts
+# ==============================================================================
+
+source <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/misc/core.func)
+source <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/misc/tools.func)
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# CONFIGURATION
+# ==============================================================================
+APP="MyAddon"
+APP_TYPE="addon"
+INSTALL_PATH="/opt/myaddon"
+BINARY_PATH="/opt/myaddon/myaddon"
+CONFIG_PATH="/opt/myaddon/config.env"
+DEFAULT_PORT=8080
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# HEADER
+# ==============================================================================
+function header_info {
+  clear
+  cat <<"EOF"
+    __  ___      ___       __    __
+   /  |/  /_  __/   | ____/ /___/ /___  ____
+  / /|_/ / / / / /| |/ __  / __  / __ \/ __ \
+ / /  / / /_/ / ___ / /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / / / /
+/_/  /_/\__, /_/  |_\__,_/\__,_/\____/_/ /_/
+       /____/
+EOF
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# COLORS & FORMATTING
+# ==============================================================================
+YW=$(echo "\033[33m")
+GN=$(echo "\033[1;92m")
+RD=$(echo "\033[01;31m")
+BL=$(echo "\033[36m")
+CL=$(echo "\033[m")
+CM="${GN}✔️${CL}"
+CROSS="${RD}✖️${CL}"
+INFO="${BL}ℹ️${CL}"
+TAB="  "
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# HELPER FUNCTIONS
+# ==============================================================================
+function msg_info() { echo -e "${INFO} ${YW}${1}...${CL}"; }
+function msg_ok() { echo -e "${CM} ${GN}${1}${CL}"; }
+function msg_error() { echo -e "${CROSS} ${RD}${1}${CL}"; }
+function msg_warn() { echo -e "⚠️  ${YW}${1}${CL}"; }
+
+function get_ip() {
+  local iface ip
+  iface=$(ip -4 route | awk '/default/ {print $5; exit}')
+  ip=$(ip -4 addr show "$iface" 2>/dev/null | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1 | head -n1)
+  [[ -z "$ip" ]] && ip=$(hostname -I 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $1}')
+  [[ -z "$ip" ]] && ip="127.0.0.1"
+  echo "$ip"
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# OS DETECTION
+# ==============================================================================
+function detect_os() {
+  if [[ -f "/etc/alpine-release" ]]; then
+    OS="Alpine"
+    SERVICE_PATH="/etc/init.d/${APP,,}"
+    PKG_INSTALL="apk add --no-cache"
+  elif [[ -f "/etc/debian_version" ]]; then
+    OS="Debian"
+    SERVICE_PATH="/etc/systemd/system/${APP,,}.service"
+    PKG_INSTALL="apt-get install -y"
+  else
+    msg_error "Unsupported OS. Exiting."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# SERVICE MANAGEMENT
+# ==============================================================================
+function stop_service() {
+  if [[ "$OS" == "Debian" ]]; then
+    systemctl stop "${APP,,}" &>/dev/null || true
+  else
+    rc-service "${APP,,}" stop &>/dev/null || true
+  fi
+}
+
+function start_service() {
+  if [[ "$OS" == "Debian" ]]; then
+    systemctl start "${APP,,}" &>/dev/null
+  else
+    rc-service "${APP,,}" start &>/dev/null
+  fi
+}
+
+function enable_service() {
+  if [[ "$OS" == "Debian" ]]; then
+    systemctl enable --now "${APP,,}" &>/dev/null
+  else
+    rc-update add "${APP,,}" default &>/dev/null
+    rc-service "${APP,,}" start &>/dev/null
+  fi
+}
+
+function disable_service() {
+  if [[ "$OS" == "Debian" ]]; then
+    systemctl disable --now "${APP,,}" &>/dev/null || true
+  else
+    rc-service "${APP,,}" stop &>/dev/null || true
+    rc-update del "${APP,,}" &>/dev/null || true
+  fi
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# UNINSTALL
+# ==============================================================================
+function uninstall() {
+  msg_info "Uninstalling ${APP}"
+  disable_service
+  rm -f "$SERVICE_PATH"
+  rm -rf "$INSTALL_PATH"
+  rm -f "$CONFIG_PATH"
+  rm -f "/usr/local/bin/update_${APP,,}"
+  msg_ok "${APP} has been uninstalled"
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# UPDATE
+# ==============================================================================
+function update() {
+  msg_info "Checking for updates"
+
+  # Option 1: Using GitHub releases (recommended)
+  # if check_for_gh_release "${APP,,}" "owner/repo"; then
+  #   msg_ok "Update available"
+  #   stop_service
+  #   fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "${APP,,}" "owner/repo" "tarball" "latest" "$INSTALL_PATH"
+  #   start_service
+  #   msg_ok "Updated ${APP} successfully"
+  # else
+  #   msg_ok "${APP} is up-to-date"
+  # fi
+
+  # Option 2: Manual version check
+  # LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -fsSL "https://api.example.com/version" | jq -r '.version')
+  # CURRENT_VERSION=$(cat "$INSTALL_PATH/.version" 2>/dev/null || echo "0.0.0")
+  # if [[ "$LATEST_VERSION" != "$CURRENT_VERSION" ]]; then
+  #   msg_ok "Updating from $CURRENT_VERSION to $LATEST_VERSION"
+  #   # ... update logic ...
+  # fi
+
+  msg_ok "${APP} is up-to-date"
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# INSTALL
+# ==============================================================================
+function install() {
+  local port="${1:-$DEFAULT_PORT}"
+  local ip
+  ip=$(get_ip)
+
+  msg_info "Installing dependencies"
+  $PKG_INSTALL curl wget jq &>/dev/null
+  msg_ok "Installed dependencies"
+
+  msg_info "Installing ${APP}"
+  mkdir -p "$INSTALL_PATH"
+
+  # Download and install your application here
+  # Example: fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "${APP,,}" "owner/repo" "tarball" "latest" "$INSTALL_PATH"
+
+  msg_ok "Installed ${APP}"
+
+  msg_info "Creating configuration"
+  cat <<EOF >"$CONFIG_PATH"
+# ${APP} Configuration
+PORT=${port}
+# Add more configuration options here
+EOF
+  msg_ok "Created configuration"
+
+  msg_info "Creating service"
+  create_service "$port"
+  enable_service
+  msg_ok "Created and started service"
+
+  # Create update script
+  create_update_script
+
+  echo ""
+  msg_ok "${APP} is reachable at: ${BL}http://${ip}:${port}${CL}"
+  msg_ok "Update with: ${BL}update_${APP,,}${CL}"
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# SERVICE FILE CREATION
+# ==============================================================================
+function create_service() {
+  local port="$1"
+
+  if [[ "$OS" == "Debian" ]]; then
+    cat <<EOF >"$SERVICE_PATH"
+[Unit]
+Description=${APP}
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=root
+WorkingDirectory=${INSTALL_PATH}
+EnvironmentFile=${CONFIG_PATH}
+ExecStart=${BINARY_PATH}
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=10
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+EOF
+  else
+    cat <<EOF >"$SERVICE_PATH"
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+
+name="${APP}"
+description="${APP} Service"
+command="${BINARY_PATH}"
+command_args=""
+command_background=true
+directory="${INSTALL_PATH}"
+pidfile="/run/${APP,,}.pid"
+
+depend() {
+    need net
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+    if [ -f "${CONFIG_PATH}" ]; then
+        export \$(grep -v '^#' ${CONFIG_PATH} | xargs)
+    fi
+}
+EOF
+    chmod +x "$SERVICE_PATH"
+  fi
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# UPDATE SCRIPT CREATION
+# ==============================================================================
+function create_update_script() {
+  local script_name="update_${APP,,}"
+  local script_path="/usr/local/bin/${script_name}"
+
+  msg_info "Creating update script"
+  cat <<UPDATEEOF >"$script_path"
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# ${APP} Update Script
+# Auto-generated by community-scripts addon installer
+
+set -e
+
+APP="${APP}"
+INSTALL_PATH="${INSTALL_PATH}"
+CONFIG_PATH="${CONFIG_PATH}"
+
+# Colors
+YW='\033[33m'
+GN='\033[1;92m'
+RD='\033[01;31m'
+BL='\033[36m'
+CL='\033[m'
+CM="\${GN}✔️\${CL}"
+INFO="\${BL}ℹ️\${CL}"
+
+msg_info() { echo -e "\${INFO} \${YW}\${1}...\${CL}"; }
+msg_ok() { echo -e "\${CM} \${GN}\${1}\${CL}"; }
+
+echo -e "\${BL}━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\${CL}"
+echo -e "\${GN}       ${APP} Update Script\${CL}"
+echo -e "\${BL}━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\${CL}"
+echo ""
+
+# Source tools.func for update functions
+source <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/misc/tools.func) 2>/dev/null || {
+  echo -e "\${RD}Failed to load tools.func\${CL}"
+  exit 1
+}
+
+# TODO: Add your update logic here
+# Example:
+# if check_for_gh_release "\${APP,,}" "owner/repo"; then
+#   msg_info "Stopping service"
+#   systemctl stop \${APP,,}.service &>/dev/null || true
+#   msg_ok "Stopped service"
+#
+#   msg_info "Backing up configuration"
+#   cp "\$CONFIG_PATH" /tmp/\${APP,,}.env.bak 2>/dev/null || true
+#   msg_ok "Backed up configuration"
+#
+#   fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "\${APP,,}" "owner/repo" "tarball" "latest" "\$INSTALL_PATH"
+#
+#   msg_info "Restoring configuration"
+#   cp /tmp/\${APP,,}.env.bak "\$CONFIG_PATH" 2>/dev/null || true
+#   rm -f /tmp/\${APP,,}.env.bak
+#   msg_ok "Restored configuration"
+#
+#   msg_info "Starting service"
+#   systemctl start \${APP,,}.service &>/dev/null
+#   msg_ok "Started service"
+#
+#   echo ""
+#   msg_ok "\${APP} updated successfully!"
+# else
+#   msg_ok "\${APP} is already up-to-date"
+# fi
+
+msg_ok "\${APP} update check completed"
+UPDATEEOF
+
+  chmod +x "$script_path"
+  msg_ok "Created update script (${script_path})"
+}
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# MAIN
+# ==============================================================================
+header_info
+detect_os
+
+IP=$(get_ip)
+
+# Check if already installed
+if [[ -f "$BINARY_PATH" ]] || [[ -d "$INSTALL_PATH" && -n "$(ls -A $INSTALL_PATH 2>/dev/null)" ]]; then
+  msg_warn "${APP} is already installed."
+  echo ""
+
+  echo -n "${TAB}Uninstall ${APP}? (y/N): "
+  read -r uninstall_prompt
+  if [[ "${uninstall_prompt,,}" =~ ^(y|yes)$ ]]; then
+    uninstall
+    exit 0
+  fi
+
+  echo -n "${TAB}Update ${APP}? (y/N): "
+  read -r update_prompt
+  if [[ "${update_prompt,,}" =~ ^(y|yes)$ ]]; then
+    update
+    exit 0
+  fi
+
+  msg_warn "No action selected. Exiting."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# Fresh installation
+msg_warn "${APP} is not installed."
+echo ""
+
+echo -n "${TAB}Enter port number (default: ${DEFAULT_PORT}): "
+read -r PORT_INPUT
+PORT="${PORT_INPUT:-$DEFAULT_PORT}"
+
+# Add more configuration prompts here if needed
+# echo -n "${TAB}Enter username: "
+# read -r USERNAME
+
+echo ""
+echo -n "${TAB}Install ${APP}? (y/N): "
+read -r install_prompt
+if [[ "${install_prompt,,}" =~ ^(y|yes)$ ]]; then
+  install "$PORT"
+else
+  msg_warn "Installation cancelled. Exiting."
+  exit 0
+fi