Umweltsensor - not all sensors show up (missing wind and rain)

[modellbobby]

Dear developer, can you check please. using Homepilot 3 and Umweltsensor. I get the Lightsensor and Temp Sensor in Homebridge but not rain, wind, sun angle.

Can you check ?

[bombadiltom]

no need to check, I did not add the "Umweltsensor", someone else did. And as I do not have a "Umweltsensor", I do not think I will add it in near future.

[modellbobby]

Could you help identify the developer who coded this feature ?

[modellbobby]

This is how I can see all the sensors http://homepilot.local/v4/devices?devtype=Sensor

[bombadiltom]

https://github.com/sg70

[modellbobby]

Hello Tom, can you guide me how to read the data from the rain sensor and send the data to homebridge as Leak Sensor (as there is no rain Sensor type there yet) I can develop it myself but need some advice how to get the data from the sensor under "rain_detected"

http://homepilot.local/v4/devices?devtype=Sensor

{"response":"get_meters","meters":[{"description":"Umweltsensor","deviceGroup":3,"did":14,"automations":[30,50,60,100,20,40],"readings":{"sun_detected":false,"sun_brightness":1000,"sun_direction":247.5,"sun_elevation":9,"wind_speed":0.0,"rain_detected":false,"temperature_primary":9.1},"timestamp":1614614382,"iconSetInverted":0,"iconSet":{"k":"iconset19"},"name":"Umweltsensor","statusValid":true,"deviceNumber":"32000064_S","uid":"69010a_S_1","visible":true}]}

[bombadiltom]

should be the same as in the sun sensor: https://github.com/bombadiltom/homebridge-rademacher-homepilot/blob/7c4802c27792376561dd8251334dc131d7c62bd4/accessories/RademacherSunSensorAccessory.js#L40

[modellbobby]

Thank you , I ll try it and send a pull request

[modellbobby]

Hi Tom, can you help here please . How can I compile the code on my raspberry locally and use it in homebridge before sending a pull request ?

Thank you / Danke

[bombadiltom]

use deploy.sh, maybe remove/comment out the line which removes the cachedAccessories, otherwise you'll lose the information in which room your devices are located

[bombadiltom]

pr merged and published as 0.8.0, thanks for that, any idea for wind sensor?

[modellbobby]

Netatmo is providing a HomeKit wind sensor. There should be then a device type for this in HomeKit. I will check.

Tom Lorenz [email protected] schrieb am Di. 2. März 2021 um 09:23:

pr merged and published as 0.8.0, thanks for that, any idea for wind sensor?

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/bombadiltom/homebridge-rademacher-homepilot/issues/91#issuecomment-788716423, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEQBTN4VVFHN2RVEJFLSFTTBSN67ANCNFSM4YFJYSRA .

[modellbobby]

I think we can look at https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-weather-plus They have implemented Wind speed etc.

[sg70]

Hi @modellbobby / @bombadiltom,

there was a reason why I didn't implemented all possible values. The HomeKit API doesn't support those values. Temperature (CurrentTemperature), light (CurrentAmbientLightLevel) and rain detection (LeakSensor) are support by HomeKit. Wind speed, sun elevation and sun azimuth aren't support.

Modules for other device (such as weather plus) do implement workaround (e.g. OccupancyDetected) using a boolean like type and a threshold to turn the value to 1. Personally I don't like such workarounds as the nature of the value is not supported by HomeKit.

Pls find here the supported characteristics https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/latest/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts Any idea which characteristic can be used for the missing values is welcome.