Homebridge-speedtest-net NPM

homebridge-speedtest-net

Homebridge Plugin for broadband speed measurement as temperature sensor

Homebridge plugin for checking your broadband speed

This homebridge plugin exposes a new temperature sensor to HomeKit to see your broadband speed at home. It also has characteristics to see the download- and upload speed, your ping and your external ip within i.e. Elgato Eve app.

For the download speed the Eve History (fakegato-history) is used.

NOTE: The Eve History seems to have problems with high values - sometimes it shows negative values instead. Have to look deeper in this issue.

See Images for more details.

Installation instructions

After Homebridge has been installed:

sudo npm install -g homebridge-speedtest-net@latest --unsafe-perm

NOTE: If you get the follwing error in the console you have to manually create the directories binaries and pkg.

An error occured: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-speedtest-net/node_modules/speedtest-net/binaries' - Trying again in 1 min

Open the terminal (eg. in homebridge-config-ui-x) and execute the following commands.

cd /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-speedtest-net/node_modules/speedtest-net/
su pi
sudo mkdir binaries pkg
sudo chmod 777 binaries/ pkg/

This problems occures because the NodeJS tool speedtest.net wants to create directories to download the test files for speed test. I have to look into it.

Example config.json:

{
 "bridge": {
     ...
 },
 "accessories": [
   {
     "accessory": "SpeedtestNet",
     "name": "Internet",
     "interval": 60
   }
 ]
}

Options

Attributes	Required	Usage
accessory	Yes	Must be "SpeedtestNet"
name	No	Name for the Accessory (Default: SpeedtestNet)
interval	No	Interval for checing the broadband in mins (Default: 60min)