homebridge-soil-temp-sensor

Homebridge plugin only listening to http push events from a soil and temperature sensor.

Why this plugin?

Building an extremely low power soil humidity and temperature sensor based on the simple http protocol demanded the sensor's http server to be offline most of the time. Humidity and temperature are measured at a very low frequency (once per hour) at the device which makes the device unavailable for http requests most of the time. Several temperature or humidty Homebridge sensors exist, however none of them supported:

• only http push notifications.
• written in TypeScript.
• support for FakeGato sensor history.
• emulted battery low status (my device does not (yet) support battery energy level so I needed a way to inidcate a lost connection while keeping the "no response" reply reserved for homebridge unresponsiveness).

Notification Server

homebridge-soil-temp-sensor has to be used together with homebridge-http-notification-server in order to receive updates when the state changes at your external program. For details on how to implement those updates and how to install and configure homebridge-http-notification-server, please refer to the README of the repository.

Down here is an example on how to configure homebridge-soil-temp-sensor to work with your implementation of the homebridge-soil-temp-sensor.

{
    "accessories": [
        {
          "accessory": "SoilMoistureTempSensor",
          "name": "Garden mositure sensor",

          "notificationID": "my-soil-sensor",
          "notificationPassword": "superSecretPassword",
        }   
    ]
}

• notificationID is an per Homebridge instance unique id which must be included in any http request.
• notificationPassword is optional. It can be used to secure any incoming requests.

To get more details about the configuration have a look at the README.