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Purple Air hits on a bit of the neighborhood pollution sensor idea: https://www2.purpleair.com/ https://www2.purpleair.com/ I've used their API to look at Cali
by nrjames 7y ago
Purple Air hits on a bit of the neighborhood pollution sensor idea: https://www2.purpleair.com/ https://www2.purpleair.com/
I've used their API to look at California wildfire data.
- Patrick_Devine 7y agoPurple Air has been extremely popular in our community due to the wild fires here in California. There are quite a few sensors around town, and it gives you a good idea about how to prepare the kids for school and whether we should be riding bicycles.
- asdff 7y agoHow do you act on the air quality info? Seems to me that riding a bike or driving a car you'd be breathing the same air.
- modeless 7y agoWhen you ride a bike you breathe a lot more. Staying indoors and exercising less (therefore breathing less) while you are outside are the two main things you can do when air quality is bad.
- modeless 7y agoTheir API is great. I found their site a little slow for something I want to check regularly so I built a faster one based on the API: https://aqi.today https://aqi.today If there's a PurpleAir sensor near you, it will show you the reading instantly. It also updates the favicon so you can leave it open in the background and check the reading just by glancing at the tab.
- asdff 7y agoThis is great! saved to home screen on iOS for convenience
- sillypuddy 7y agoI think this data is integrated into weather underground app as well.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoLight poles, cell towers, smart speakers and home internet routers seem like a good place where to bundle sensors with. p.s. thanks for that site. Works well with BitBar: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/sudo -u dzhiurgis -i bash -c 'echo -n "AQI "; curl -s https://www.purpleair.com/json\?key\=EAOGA5Q4JOPE8HH7\&show\=17325 | jq -r ".results[0].PM2_5Value"'