homebridge-comed-hourlybilling

A ComEd Hourly Billing plugin for Homebridge. This creates a Light Sensor in homekit, where the LUX reading is actually the current hour average price.

This code is heavily based on the work of Stog's homebridge-fronius-inverter accessory.

Installation

Run these commands:

% sudo npm install -g homebridge
% sudo npm install -g homebridge-comed-hourlybilling

NB: If you install homebridge like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge

Then all subsequent installations must be like this:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-comed-hourlybilling

Configuration

Example accessory config (needs to be added to the homebridge config.json): ...

	"accessories": [
    	{
			"name": "ComEd Rate",
			"manufacturer": "ComEd",
			"model": "Hourly Billing"
			"accessory": "ComEd Hourly Billing"
    	}
  	]

...

Config Explanation:

Field | Description ----------------------------|------------ accessory | (required) Must always be "ComEd Hourly Billing". name | (required) The name you want to use for 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.