homebridge-temperature-humidity-sensor-file v1.1.0

homebridge-temperature-humidity-sensor-file

This is a plugin for homebridge which makes it possible to create a temperature and humidity sensor in HomeKit via file.

Why via file?

When you have a DHT-sensor, you need sudo to read from it. I don't want to run homebridge as sudo, so I'm having a cronjob, which writes every n seconds to a file and read from it from homebridge.

Example config

{
  "accessory": "TemperatureFile",
  "name": "Temperature-sensor",
  "description": "The temparature sensor in the bedroom",
  "file_path": "/home/pi/dht/temp.txt"
},
{
  "accessory": "HumidityFile",
  "name": "Humidity-sensor",
  "description": "The humidity sensor in the bedroom",
  "file_path": "/home/pi/dht/hum.txt"   
}