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Our local Council has a few air quality monitors in strategic places and publish the results as open data. However, they are 6 months behind…",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"20186072","atonse","This is amazing. I'm going to add this to a fun weekend project to monitor air quality in my neighborhood.",[65],{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Raspberry Pi","maker",[69,71],{"id":70},"post",{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"20185976","No soldering required, you just plug it onto the header on the Raspberry Pi.","unknown","launched","company",{"praise":78,"objections":90,"requests":120,"questions":158,"alternatives":173},[79],{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Useful cheap environmental monitoring for hobbyists and projects","commenter",[83,87,88,89],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"20187133","m4x","This looks great. I've been waiting for a nice, hackable, cheap set of environmental sensors! There's only one \"improvement\" I would like to see - an option to buy a cheaper…",{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},[91,106,113],{"value":92,"source":81,"evidence":93},"BME280 temperature reading is affected by board and Pi heat",[94,98,102],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"20189610","volkerp","The BME280 is not particular suited for ambient temperature measurements. It's for accurate and fast pressure and humidity sensing. Quote from the datasheet about the temp…",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"20201310","laacz","I'd suggest breaking out this board to decouple it from rpi, since rpi heats up enough to make temperature readings from attached board inaccurate.",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"20185764","josecastillo","Weirdly coincidental timing on this! I've been working on a PCB design (FeatherWing form factor) to track weather data on my hikes, making use of a BME280 and a GPS module. 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I prefer this model to having on-board sensors. This doesn't do everything the Enviro+…",{"value":182,"source":81,"evidence":183},"Waveshare Pioneer600",[184],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"20186422","darkhorn","Very similar to Pioneer600, an expansion board for Raspberry Pi. https:\u002F\u002Fwww.waveshare.com\u002Fpioneer600.htm",{"value":189,"source":81,"evidence":190},"Awair",[191],{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"20188040","alfozan","I have been using https:\u002F\u002Fgetawair.com\u002F (2nd edition) for over 6 months and I can't recommend it enough.",{"value":196,"source":81,"evidence":197},"MH-Z19 CO2 sensor",[198,201],{"id":199,"by":156,"text":200},"20186077","Have you considered MH-Z19 ? I'm using it with success on hass.io platform.",{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"20186097","buildzr","Have you considered the much cheaper MH-Z19 or even the CCS811? 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