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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by sliken on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:39AM (#36517913)
Absurd why? Battery powered for a year pretty much rules out wifi, BLE seems pretty reasonable for the use case. The code is open source so you can use whatever you want that is BLE enabled. I have a USB BLE dongle, but plenty of widgets have BLE built in.

Or just buy the more expensive model that talks wifi and plug in a USB-c to power it.

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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by chromatin on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:50PM (#36526531)
I don't see a more expensive model with wifi and USB-C.

We are talking about the Wave Plus, no?

https://www.airthings.com/wave-plus

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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by sliken on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:06PM (#36526705)
View-plus is basically a wave-plus with an extra sensor, usb-c power, and wifi:

https://www.airthings.com/view-plus

It can run on batteries, but then you lose the functionality of bridging from BLE to wifi.

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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by chromatin on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:43PM (#36528974)
Thank you!
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