homebridge-weather

homebridge-weather

A homebridge plugin that acts as temperature sensor for displaying the weather (and optional the humidity) at your current location.

Installation

1. Install Homebridge using: npm install -g homebridge
2. Install this plugin using: npm install -g homebridge-weather
3. Get an API-Key from openweathermap.org
4. Find your city (make sure the query only returns a single result). Alternatively you can use a different query parameter (see 'Fields')
5. Update your Homebridge config.json using the sample below (in the block 'accessories' not 'platforms').

Configuration

By City

{
  "accessory": "Weather",
  "apikey": "YOUR_KEY_HERE",
  "location": "Stuttgart,de",
  "name": "OpenWeatherMap Temperature"
}

By ID

{
  "accessory": "Weather",
  "apikey": "YOUR_KEY_HERE",
  "locationById": "2172797",
  "name": "OpenWeatherMap Temperature"
}

By Coordinates

{
  "accessory": "Weather",
  "apikey": "YOUR_KEY_HERE",
  "locationByCoordinates": "lat=35&lon=139",
  "name": "OpenWeatherMap Temperature"
}

Fields:

• accessory must be "Weather" (required).
• apikey API-Key for accessing OpenWeatherMap API (required).
• location city-name query string (resembles to q-parameter) (required).
• OR locationById cityid query string (resembles to cityid-parameter) (required).
• OR locationByCoordinates geo query string (resembles to geo-parameter) (required).
• OR locationByZip zip query string (resembles to zip-parameter) (required).
• name is the name of the published accessory (required).
• showHumidity weather or not show the humidity (optional).