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I made a set of DIY weather station/air quality monitors at the beginning of COVID. I have lots of little noises for various things that trigger via Home Assis

I made a set of DIY weather station/air quality monitors at the beginning of COVID. I have lots of little noises for various things that trigger via Home Assistant. Like when outdoor air quality spikes, I get one noise (usually neighbor having a cigar, leaf blower nearby, someone with a wood stove, etc.) If indoor air quality spikes I get another one (dry shampoo, burned pancakes, etc really set it off). During fire seasons, balancing CO2 with PM2.5 is hard. Best move after many days was to put the box fan with filter in the window to blow filtered air in. I figure it's basically a mini version of those huge HVAC intake fans on skyscrapers. Home assistant talks to the stations over MQTT over local wifi, no cloud, remote access over vpn when needed. Lots of fun! Happy to see fancier and better put together packages like this out there to spread the joy of ambient air quality monitoring. https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-monitoring-station-with-esp8266-and-home-assistant/ https://partofthething.com/thoughts/weather-and-air-quality-...

PietdeVries 5y ago
For the (north) Europeans here, there is a German project Luftdaten (also available in English) that does more or less the same [1]. Provides guides for air quality measurement devices [2], firmware and a 'worldwide' map that shows the location and measurement of each device. They have around 14.000 at the moment, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. The device works with Domoticz, so you can get the read-out integrated in your dashboard. Shows temperature, humidity and PM10 & PM2.5 - very happy with mine! [1] https://sensor.community/en/ https://sensor.community/en/ [2] https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/ https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/
- bodo11 5y ago
  I second this! I've been sending sensor data into the https://sensor.community https://sensor.community cloud for over a year now, with dead simple setup and forget-about-it attitude since then. For the lazy there is also an option of spending ~50€ for a plug-and-play version [1]. Independently of that, you also get a grafana web GUI after registering your chip, e.g. [2]. On another note, I hope these databases from similar projects stay mergable or the projects even merge. [1] https://nettigo.eu/products/sensor-community-kit-sds011-bme280-english-language https://nettigo.eu/products/sensor-community-kit-sds011-bme2... [2] https://api-rrd.madavi.de/grafana/d/q87EBfWGk/temperature-humidity-pressure?orgId=1&var-chipID=esp32-115a65334fc4 https://api-rrd.madavi.de/grafana/d/q87EBfWGk/temperature-hu...

PietdeVries 5y ago

For the (north) Europeans here, there is a German project Luftdaten (also available in English) that does more or less the same [1]. Provides guides for air quality measurement devices [2], firmware and a 'worldwide' map that shows the location and measurement of each device. They have around 14.000 at the moment, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. The device works with Domoticz, so you can get the read-out integrated in your dashboard. Shows temperature, humidity and PM10 & PM2.5 - very happy with mine! [1] https://sensor.community/en/ https://sensor.community/en/ [2] https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/ https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/

bodo11 5y ago
I second this! I've been sending sensor data into the https://sensor.community https://sensor.community cloud for over a year now, with dead simple setup and forget-about-it attitude since then. For the lazy there is also an option of spending ~50€ for a plug-and-play version [1]. Independently of that, you also get a grafana web GUI after registering your chip, e.g. [2]. On another note, I hope these databases from similar projects stay mergable or the projects even merge. [1] https://nettigo.eu/products/sensor-community-kit-sds011-bme280-english-language https://nettigo.eu/products/sensor-community-kit-sds011-bme2... [2] https://api-rrd.madavi.de/grafana/d/q87EBfWGk/temperature-humidity-pressure?orgId=1&var-chipID=esp32-115a65334fc4 https://api-rrd.madavi.de/grafana/d/q87EBfWGk/temperature-hu...