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Re:Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam by wil421 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:05PM (#33026358)
What sensor are you using? I bought a few trash ones from Microcenter. The readings were all over the place and I couldn’t get reliable numbers without smoothing numbers and throwing readings out. One of the spec sheets even said you would get crazy readings and would need to throw them out.
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Re:Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam by newman314 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:00PM (#33027155)
I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned Aranet yet. From what I can tell, they appear to work quite well. However, it is quite pricey.

I did look into the AirGradient when geerlingguy put out a video about it but they were out of stock at the time. It looks like there might be a new version but that may be something worth looking at.

I tried the Vitalight CO2s but the readings were all over the place despite recalibration with 2 devices side by side. Ended up returning these. Do not recommend.

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Re:Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam by williamscales on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:13AM (#33030840)
yeah I was looking for mentions of Aranet. I have two and they came with calibration info iirc.
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Re:Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam by jeffreygoesto on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:23AM (#33031616)
I am using a Bosch BME680 and read it out with https://pypi.org/project/bme680/
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Re:Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam by Rnonymous on Friday September 30, 2022 @04:56AM (#33032585)
This suffers from exactly what is mentioned in the article i assume. The temperature and humidity are thus unreliable.
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Re:Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam by jeffreygoesto on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:30AM (#33032807)
True. You need to know that and see if you can live with it for your use case. Some information is available at least, like the temperature coefficient of the pressure sensor [0]. Bosch offers an "interpretation library" that you also can train yourself specifically, that can be used for the successor BME688 [1]...

[0] https://community.bosch-sensortec.com/t5/Knowledge-base/BME2...

[1] https://github.com/BoschSensortec/BME68x-Sensor-API

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