homebridge-temperature-file

This is a plugin for homebridge which makes it possible to create a temperature 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 temperature sensor in the bedroom",

  "file_path": "/home/pi/dht/temp"

}