homebridge-accessory-bandwidth-quality

An accessory plugin for Homebridge.

Installation

Run these commands:

% sudo npm install -g homebridge
% sudo npm install -g homebridge-accessory-bandwidth-quality

On Linux, you might see this output for the second command:

npm ERR! pcap@2.0.0 install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!

If so, please try

% apt-get install libpcap-dev

and try

% sudo npm install -g homebridge-accessory-bandwidth-quality

again!

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-accessory-bandwidth-quality

Configuration

Edit ~/.homebridge/config.json, inside "accessories": [ ... ] add:

{ "accessory" : "bandwidth-quality"
, "name" : "Bandwidth Quality"
, "token" : "..."
// choices are in bits (bps, Kbps, Mbps, or Gbps) or octets (Bps, KBps, MBps, GBps)
, "nominal" : { "unit": "Mbps", "value": 300 }

// optional, here are the defaults
// default TTL is 10m, minimum TTL is 5m
, "options" : { "ttl": 600 }
}

Please read this to determine the value of the token parameter.

Many Thanks

Many thanks to branchard author of fast-speedtest-api.

Many thanks (also) to SeydX author of homebridge-bandwidth.