Air quality to be integrated into home automation

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Air quality to be integrated into home automation #677

Closed 130s closed 1 year ago

130s commented 2 years ago

CoS

Home Automation to utilize outside air quality measurement.
- [x] HASS receives outside air quality measurement.
- [ ] HASS controls air filters based on measurement.
[ ] Home Automation to utilize inside air quality measurement.
- [x] Sensor choice https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/567
- [x] HASS receives inside air quality measurement.
- [ ] HASS controls air filters based on measurement.

130s commented 2 years ago

Home Automation to utilize outside air quality measurement.

Using https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/airvisual/ I can see some of the measurement of AirVisual on my HoA's Lovelace.

AirVisual api key gen

Fri May 27 2022 01:58:27 GMT-04:00

130s commented 2 years ago

Serial Particulate Matter (home-assistant.io) only lists plantower,pms5003 and other plantower products, plus a few other options. Serial connection means one sensor requires one computer e.g. Arduino (these days??), RPi, which may be overkill/over maintenance for me. HoA integration looks good though.
PurpleAir: Lengthy thread about integration (home-assistant.io)

130s commented 2 years ago

Both In/Outdoor measurements are now received by our HASS.

130s commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/567#issuecomment-1147155054 reads HASS added the device once it's connected to the Internet/LAN, but that's not the case after migrating to a new HASS instance https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/644.

130s commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/567#issuecomment-1147155054 reads HASS added the device once it's connected to the Internet/LAN, but that's not the case after migrating to a new HASS instance https://github.com/130s/hut_10sqft/issues/644.

To add a measurement from the device to HASS,

Click Add my integration at https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/airvisual/
You may be presented multiple options incl. "api key w/lat- and longitude", "geolocation name". Choose AirVisual Pro/Node or simular. That seems to be the name of the hardware I have.
Figure out somehow the IP address of your AirVisual device in my LAN. I looked into the DHCP server's log to find it.

Done.

130s commented 1 year ago

HASS controls air filters based on measurement.

I don't feel the necessity of this for now. Regularly having the air filter on for set amount of time is fine esp. some of our kids are having perpetually respiratory problems.