Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device

Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device by xvfLJfx9 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:20AM (#44189861)

I wish it would have support for Zigbee so I can pair it with other open data aggregation systems like Home Assistant. AirGradient, another cool air quality monitor, for example, does not have this.

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Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device by patrickk on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:38AM (#44189973)

They integrate with Home Assistant via MQTT:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/networked-artifacts/air-lab/upda...

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Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device by scottlamb on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:32PM (#44193222)

The trick with the AirGradient is to use one of the ESPHome configs available [1] instead of their crappy Arduino sketch. Then it integrates with Home Assistant perfectly.

[1] e.g. https://github.com/MallocArray/airgradient_esphome

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Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device by westurner on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:35PM (#44196026)

Matter protocol support would also be a useful feature.

Potential integration: Run HVAC fans and/or an attic fan and/or a crawlspace fan if indoor AQI is worse than outdoor AQI

This says that Air Quality Sensor support was added to matter protocol in 2023: https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/matter-1-2-arrives-with-nine-ne... :

> Air Quality Sensors – Supported sensors can capture and report on: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, CO2, NO2, VOC, CO, Ozone, Radon, and Formaldehyde. Furthermore, the addition of the Air Quality Cluster enables Matter devices to provide AQI information based on the device’s location

/? matter protocol Air Quality Cluster: https://www.google.com/search?q=matter+protocol+Air+Quality+...

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Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device by 256dpi on Thursday June 05, 2025 @06:17PM (#44196269)

We'll definitely look into supporting Matter in the future, as it would allow integration with the most common home automation platforms/apps out there.

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Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device by westurner on Saturday June 07, 2025 @10:47AM (#44210003)

FWIU Thread and Matter work better when there is a "Border Router" ('hub') in the system; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32167256#32186688

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