Temperature from alternate sources

[lprhodes]

Wrapping up what people want in terms of getting the temperature from other sources for use with the "aircon" accessory:

• File - simply a number in a file
• URL - either a number or a JSON payload that you specify
• Broadlink devices including the A1
• HomeKit accessory temperatures

The last time I checked, HomeBridge isn't architectures to allow communication between plugins. This means that this isn't possible at this time.

Ref: #164 and #242

[ashtonaut]

I use a 1-wire temperature sensor hooked up to the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins. It’s pretty easy to poll this and dump the temperature to a file, so I’d love to see this method supported.

[RealLittleSherman]

I thinks that MQTT that a multi purpose data source for this type of data

[tomky]

I think either File or URL are useful enough in many cases. We may then use some shell scripts or http-webhooks as proxy.

[lprhodes]

Support has been added for temperatureFilePath in 3.0.5

[lprhodes]

My thinking is in line with @tomky's in that you should be able to achieve what you need using temperatureFilePath combined with other shell scripts.

I'll likely add support for other broadlink sources such as the A1 in the future