@potterdai/homebridge-nuheat

homebridge-nuheat

This is a plugin for NuHeat Signature Floor Heat Thermostats. The goal is to automate schedules based on HomeKit integration (scenes, geofencing, etc).

Features

• Auto detection and configuration of all thermostats
• Auto detection and configuration of away mode switches for groups
• Customized hold lengths

Installation

Install homebridge using:

npm install -g homebridge

Install this plugin using

npm install -g homebridge-nuheat

Configuration

Most people will use Config-UI to customize the plugin, but here is an example config

"platforms": [
		{
			"platform": "NuHeat",
			"name":     "NuHeat",
			"Email" : "[e-mail]",
			"password" : "password123",
			"devices" : [
				{"serialNumber": "1111111"},
				{"serialNumber": "2222222"}
			]
		},
    ]

• platform NuHeat
• name can be anything you want, this is what the platform will display its logs as
• email your MyNuHeat e-mail
• password your MyNuHeat password
• devices These are your thermostats Note if you leave this empty, the plugin with auto detect and add all thermostats on your account
• serialNumber Your thermostat's serial number. Go to the MyNuHeat website, log in and click 'View Details' on your device. Look for the thermostat ID
• autoPopulateAwayModeSwitches boolean value that allows the plugin to create away mode switches for all groups on the account
• groups These are your groups for away mode switches
• groupName The pre-set name for the group as reflect in MyNuHeat
• holdLength This is how long a change, made via HomeKit, will be in effect. Integer value representing minutes between 0 and 1440. When set to 0, the setpoint change will only be in effect until the next scheduled event. When set to 1440, the setpoint change is a permenant hold (default). Anything else , the setpoing change will last for X minutes.
• refresh How often the data is refreshed from the MyNuHeat website, in seconds. Defaults to 60
• debug will return lots details in the Homebridge logs

Roadmap

Looks like the signalR notification channel isn't working properly, so right now we are still polling based on refresh. It would be nice to switch over to only update when signalR notifies us