Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor

Re:Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor by CommanderData on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:10PM (#36924049)

I'm struggling to see the benefit of your product. Apart from the outdoor element. You can buy a 4 in 1 air monitor from Amazon for half the price (Co2, PM, Temp and Humidity) i.e. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indoor-Air-Quality-Monitor-Multifun...

There are others with 6 in 1 with app control for less.

Aren't there other sensors that would be more useful providing better insights on pollutants and health you could provide at a premium that these cheaper monitors can't.

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Re:Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor by ahaucnx on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:23PM (#36924178)

We use high quality sensor modules like e.g. the SenseAir S8 NDIR CO2 sensor that is made in Sweden and also Sensirion modules from Switzerland. These are much more expensive than less accurate sensor modules that you find in many other monitors.

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Re:Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor by ted_dunning on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:17PM (#36926692)

The sensor quality and the open source nature make a lot of difference there.

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Re:Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor by aequitas on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:50AM (#36928552)

This is the cheapest option I found that would do MQTT or allow me to include my own HTTP endpoint for scraping Prometheus metrics over WiFi.

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