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Documentation doesn't mention that an Airthings hub is required #31977

Open dbpage opened 7 months ago

dbpage commented 7 months ago

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Neither Airthings nor the Integration documentation mentions that an Airthings hub is necessary to integrate with Home Assistant. I went round and round until I decided to power my View Plus with USB. Adding the Airthings integration went exactly as documented. The hub was the missing piece. Please add a note about this.

URL

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/airthings/

Version

2024.3.1

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home-assistant[bot] commented 7 months ago

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LaStrada commented 7 months ago

Thanks for reporting this! Yes, you're right. The Hub (SmartLink) functionality is not mentioned in the documentation.

You can actually use this integration without any hub, but you won't get any live updates, and you need to rely on the app to sync over Bluetooth and then upload to the cloud.

Adding something about the hub will probably help people to not debug this themself 👍