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Is there a good non DIY air quality monitor that can be hooked up to Prometheus for monitoring over time? I know this is a very “non HN” thing to ask. But, as

Is there a good non DIY air quality monitor that can be hooked up to Prometheus for monitoring over time? I know this is a very “non HN” thing to ask. But, as much as I’d love to learn and tinker with Adruino, sensors and their soldered connections, supplying power correctly etc, I am afraid all my spare time would be gone to it, and I will never get to the air quality part of the project. It will be yet another wide scoped project that never ends. Hence the ask for a non DIY yet Prometheus compatible solution..

Havoc 5y ago
The huawei are filters have integrated sensors and with a bit of hassle the info can be extracted. Some people don’t like huawei gear but I’ve found the hardware at least to be good
- reacharavindh 5y ago
  I found something on AliExpress that seems to send data over Bluetooth. I don't what kind of effort it would take to capture that data if I have a RaspBerry Pi with Bluetooth. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003019471995.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.378c50b7kRDMQT&algo_pvid=194b9ca1-12d6-4d56-bb78-e9e173d649f9&algo_exp_id=194b9ca1-12d6-4d56-bb78-e9e173d649f9-0&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000024214839006%22%7D https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003019471995.html?spm=a2...
  - Havoc 5y ago
    The huawei stuff is generally addressable via LAN using home assistant etc. Can be a bit tricky to get hold of the security tokens but at least doesn’t involve re inventing any wheels. One is very much at the mercy of firmware updates blocking diy access. General recommendation is not to update. Plus US crowd is pretty paranoid on huawei stuff ofc
    - reacharavindh 5y ago
      Well, I am not planning to let my air quality monitor connect to the internet, let alone to my home network where my computing devices are. So, there’s that. If the huawei thing is accessible in the local network, that is almost exactly what I want. I can connect it to a raspberry Pi on an isolated network and extract the data I need. Thanks for the tip.

Havoc 5y ago

The huawei are filters have integrated sensors and with a bit of hassle the info can be extracted. Some people don’t like huawei gear but I’ve found the hardware at least to be good

reacharavindh 5y ago
I found something on AliExpress that seems to send data over Bluetooth. I don't what kind of effort it would take to capture that data if I have a RaspBerry Pi with Bluetooth. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003019471995.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.378c50b7kRDMQT&algo_pvid=194b9ca1-12d6-4d56-bb78-e9e173d649f9&algo_exp_id=194b9ca1-12d6-4d56-bb78-e9e173d649f9-0&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000024214839006%22%7D https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003019471995.html?spm=a2...
- Havoc 5y ago
  The huawei stuff is generally addressable via LAN using home assistant etc. Can be a bit tricky to get hold of the security tokens but at least doesn’t involve re inventing any wheels. One is very much at the mercy of firmware updates blocking diy access. General recommendation is not to update. Plus US crowd is pretty paranoid on huawei stuff ofc
  - reacharavindh 5y ago
    Well, I am not planning to let my air quality monitor connect to the internet, let alone to my home network where my computing devices are. So, there’s that. If the huawei thing is accessible in the local network, that is almost exactly what I want. I can connect it to a raspberry Pi on an isolated network and extract the data I need. Thanks for the tip.