Homebridge-Amber-Price

Homebridge-Amber-Price is a project forked from anon1y4012/homebridge-energy-price. This version has been modified to talk to the API of Amber Electric in Austraia

Installation

The easiest installation method is to use Homebridge-Config-UI-X and search for this plugin.

If you want to install manually, you can run the following commands:

sudo npm install -g homebridge
sudo npm install -g homebridge-amber-price

Note: If you install homebridge using the following command:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge

All subsequent installations must follow the same format, like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-amber-price

Configuration

You will need to add the following example accessory configuration to your homebridge config.json:

"accessories": [
    {
         "name": "Amber Price",
            "manufacturer": "Amber",
            "model": "Amber Price Monitor",
            "apiKey": "=== your API Key here ====",
            "apiId": "=== Your API ID here ====",
            "accessory": "Energy Price"
    }
]

Configuration Explanation

Field | Description ----- | ----------- accessory | (required) Must always be "Energy Price". name | (required) The name you want to use for the power level widget. manufacturer | (optional) This shows up in the HomeKit accessory characteristics. model | (optional) This shows up in the HomeKit accessory characteristics. refreshInterval | (optional) The refresh interval in minutes for polling ComEd. The default is 5 minutes. apiID | (required) Your Amber API site ID apiKey | (required) Your Amber API Key starts with psk_