Description:

This module will display the inside and outside temperature from your British Gas Hive heating. It is fairly configurable, with some of the text and the inside icon able to be changed. The thermometer is dynamic based on the current outside temperature, and the inside icon will go red when the heating is on. The Target Temperature row will also change if the target temperature of the Hive system is 1°C or lower (I couldn’t find a specific flag for frost protect enabled, so this was the best way I could find to achieve this).

I’ve never written code before, and this took far longer than it probably should have, but the internet is a great place and there are some great resources and assistance out there, so a massive thanks to anyone that has helped me (directly or indirectly).

Screenshots:

Default:

Outside temp exceeding highestTemp value, and heating on

Target temperature 1°C or lower

Text and icon changed in config.js to alternate values

Download:

[card:flick116/MMM-Hive]

Version 1

• Initial Release

No code uploaded yet, but I have started on the readme!
MMM-Hive

Got this sorted - found there is another url that holds the information so added another request. The request I was having issues with was a post request, whereas the one I am using is a get.

@jinjirosan Hi, have you made the changes available to download? Would like to give it a go as currently using a combination of the default weather and forecast-io.

Hi Damian,

I’d love to help, but unfortunately I moved house 2 weeks ago and didn’t bring the Hive with me so there is currently no way for me to test this.

From what I do remember the way that Hive works is that you have to authenticate initially and then you can request the info from the hub:

So first call is made to https://api-prod.bgchprod.info:443/omnia/auth/sessions which pulls back the session ID

Then the session ID is used in the header for the request to https://api-prod.bgchprod.info:443/omnia/nodes

For testing I used Postman in Chrome to make the requests etc so that way I could at least see if data was being pulled back.

Have you enabled debug? Might be worth a go and then view the console under the browsers developer tools to check whether data is being pulled from the above urls.

Thanks

I’ve spent some time on this (well all of my spare time really since I posted my request!) seeing if I could bodge something together, and have come up with the following:

I would imagine it’s totally unoptimised, but it pulls the temperature back from the hive server, which is the main thing! The thermometer also changes depending on the temperature, and the flame changes to white when the heating is on. Need to spend some more time tidying it up and will then probably submit it here.

@rick Thanks for that. Github has been updated :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

I was just about to post about the nodeName setting as remembered that can cause issues if you have multiple Hive bits - I only ever had the hub and thermostat… Cheers randomnoise :)

@Eunanibus I’m probably more worried about people reviewing my crappy code :) I will definitely put it up though.

Hi,

The last screenshot shows Frost Protect Enabled. Is this actually active on your hive?