homebridge-broadband v1

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 new characteristics to see the download- and upload speed, also your ping within i.e. Elgato EVE app. It also supports Fakegato.

See Images for more details.

Installation instructions

After Homebridge has been installed:

sudo npm install -g homebridge-broadband@latest --unsafe-perm

Example config.json:

{
 "bridge": {
     ...
 },
 "accessories": [
   {
     "accessory": "Broadband",
     "name": "Broadband",
     "maxTime": 5,
     "interval": 60
   }
 ]
}

Options

Attributes	Required	Usage
accessory	Yes	Must be "Broadband"
name	No	Name for the Accessory (Default: Broadband)
maxTime	No	The maximum length of a single test run in seconds (Default: 5s)
interval	No	Interval for checing the broadband in mins (Default: 60min)

See Example Config for more details.

Supported clients

This plugin have been verified to work with the following apps on iOS 11.2.5:

• Apple Home
• Elgato Eve

Known issues | TODO

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Contributing

You can contribute to this homebridge plugin in following ways:

• Report issues and help verify fixes as they are checked in.
• Review the source code changes.
• Contribute bug fixes.
• Contribute changes to extend the capabilities

Pull requests are accepted.