This plugin allows you to pull sensor data from your Ambient Weather weather station via its REST API and add those accessories to homebridge.
- Supports parsing sensors attached to multiple weather stations
- Polling is static at
2 minutes
to reduce strain on the Ambient Weather API
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Solar Radiation (As Lux)
- Air Pressure
- Wind Speed
- Wind Direction
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.