homebridge-meteohub

A pretty basic plugin for Homebridge to display Temperature and Humidity for meteohub-connected weatherstations. Currenlty the plugin relies on your locally-connected meteohub to relay and display weather station data (temperature and humidity) to the Home App.

Special Note: As with most things in HomeKit, you can ask Siri on your iOS (or HomePod) device to read out the temp and/or humidity based on how you setup your devices in the Home App.

Quick Installation

1. Install homebridge using: npm install -g homebridge
2. Install this plugin using: npm install -g homebridge-meteohub
3. Update your configuration file to reflect your local conditions (see the sample below)

No keys, or APIs required. We just rely on the fact that (a) You have a weather station on your local network connected through a Meteohub and (b) Meteohub exposes templates for us to take advantage of.

All you need is the IP address and admin password (currenlty not used) for your Meteohub. (Note: The admin password is only used to make the local HTTP 'GET' calls.)

Meteohub References

1. Meteohub User's Guide
2. Meteohub Data Logger Guide

Sample Configuration

Add the following information to your config.json file:

"accessories": [
  {
    "accessory": "HomeMeteohub",            <-- Our Accessory name
    "name": "Meteohub",                     <-- Easy to remember name
    "ip_address":  "A.B.C.D",               <-- IP address of our meteohub  <pick IP OR server; leave the other empty --> "">
    "server_address: "your.domain.name"     <-- MeteoHub server FQ address  <pick server OR IP; leave the other empty --> "">
    "port": "1234"                          <-- Desired Port
    "frequency": 5000,                      <-- Update frequency (5 second min)
    "password": "<password>",               <-- Admin password for Meteohub <Currently NOT used>
    "debug": "true"                         <-- Display temp/humidity readings in the console
    }
]

Field Explainations

"accessory": "HomeMeteohub",            <-- Our Accessory name
"name": "Meteohub",                     <-- Easy to remember name
"ip_address":  "A.B.C.D",               <-- IP address of our meteobridge
"server_address: "your.domain.name"     <-- MeteoHub server FQ address  <pick server OR IP; leave the other empty --> "">
"port": "1234"                          <-- Desired Port
"frequency": 5000,                      <-- Update frequency (5 second min)
"password": "<password>",               <-- Admin password for Meteohub <Currently NOT used>
"debug": "true"                         <-- Display temp/humidity readings in the console

Things yet to do:

• Add support for other sensors exposed by Meteohub
• Add support for user-defined units
• Add support for forecasted temperatures based on the Lat/Lon found in Meteobridge.
• Add support for password protected access to meteohub

Credits

This plugin was heavily influenced by the Thorsten Voß's plugin:homebridge-wunderground. With Wunderground likely becoming inaccessible as a free service in the not-so-distant future, I chose to make this "local" version for people to use (if they have a Meteobridge-connected weather station, of course).

This plugin is a very-close cousin to my homebridge-meteobridge plugin. If you have a meteobridge device, use this plugin.