homebridge-ambient-weather-sensors

Homebridge Ambient Weather Sensor Plugin

Complete HomeKit support for the Ambient Weather weather station ecosystem using Homebridge.

Plugin Information

This plugin allows you to pull sensor data from your Ambient Weather weather station via its REST API and add those accessories to homebridge.

Features

• Supports parsing sensors attached to multiple weather stations
• Polling is static at 2 minutes to reduce strain on the Ambient Weather API

Current Supported Sensor Types

• Temperature
• Humidity
• Solar Radiation (As Lux)

Future Supported Sensor Types

• Air Pressure
• Wind Speed
• Wind Direction

Setup

You will need two keys to configre this plugin and they can both be generate on the Ambient Weather Account Page. This part has been a point of confusion for many users.

creating the API key is straight forward. click the Create API Key button and give it a name if you would like.

Creating the Application key involves clicking the following link at the bottom of the 'API Keys' section.

Developers: An Application Key is also required for each application that you develop. Click here to create one.

A textbox will come up and you can either leave that blank or put a note in there (It doesn't appear to matter or get displayed anywhere) if you like and click Create Application Key.

These keys will get used when you setup the plugin in Homebridge.