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by somehnguy 1090 days ago
I have an AirThings Wave+ (CO2, VOC, pressure, radon, temp, humidity) that I read from using an esp32 via ble (esphome) to bring the data into Home Assistant. All local, super easy to setup & 'just works'.

I'm sure you could use a Pi to pull in the data manually via ble if you have no other uses for Home Assistant.
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yuuuuuuuu 1089 days ago
> using an esp32

> super easy to setup & 'just works'.

Yeah right. Please tell my mom again how super easy to setup an esp32 is and that it 'just works'.

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somehnguy 1087 days ago
Please consider the context of the conversation you’re replying to before getting upset about nothing.

Nobody said anything about having your non-technical mom set it up. The context was using a raspberry pi and ble to pull data from a sensor which heavily implies the person wishing to do it has a decent technical background. What I said is completely reasonable in this context.

Hosting a local server to do data collection isn’t normally something a non-technical person cares about in the slightest to begin with, so it’s pretty irrelevant. Having my devices local and using a hub of sorts to do everything is ideal, to non-technical people it’s a huge hassle. They want cloud enabled easy setup devices.

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sliken 1089 days ago
Er, unbox, pull the battery tab, open the airthings app, click adopt, and away you go. It shows the sensor readings whenever you ask and will notify you of things like humidity too low/high, CO2 being 2 high "Open a window", and the like.

If mom doesn't want to use the free cloud she might need some help, but it's about as simple as it could be for self hosting, not sure how they could make it easier.

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