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esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sensor

Wifi MQTT Data Logging via an esp8266 for the Ikea VINDRIKTNING PM2.5 air quality sensor

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What it is

Wifi MQTT Data Logging via an esp8266 for the Ikea VINDRIKTNING PM2.5 air quality sensor

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This week on Hacker News

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What Hacker News says

8 sources
_yeiy·Jan 12, 2024
Really neat how easy IKEA products data can be gleaned, especially thanks to the online community. I wanted to add a screen to the VINDRIKTNING[0] air quality sensor, and thanks to an existing project[1] I was able get it working[2]. [0] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor... [1] https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens... [2] https://github.com/zvakanaka/vindriktning-oled-no-wifi
In Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)
birdman3131·Nov 28, 2022
Its not no soldering but it is low effort soldering. Pulling from a couple guides here. Tasmota is local first. Get a wemos D1 and a https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor... https://tasmota.github.io/install/ flash the unofficial all sensors build. https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens... Solder as follows GND to GND on ESP, 5V to 5V on ESP and finally the last one to D2 on the ESP. Guides I am stealing from. https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens... Has most of the hardware side. But its using a different software. https://blakadder.com/vindriktning-tasmota/ is where I got most of the rest of the info but he uses a separate voltage regulator. If you use the Wemos D1 Mini you should not need that. After that the internet has plenty of info for hooking tasmota and say home
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assistant together.
In Ask HN: Indoor air quality sensors and other IoT that's local-first and not DIY?
cptskippy·May 26, 2022
> I write my own firmware for all of my ESP devices and I can confirm, those definitely are the bulk of the work. I was doing that too for all of my projects. I was developing them as if they were products I could potentially sell. When I accepted that I wasn't ever going to do that, I gave ESPHome a try. > took less than an hour to write since I was able to copy-paste all of that boilerplate from a previous project. It would probably take 5 minutes to configure from scratch ESPHome, less time if you're copying from an existing config. In addition to that, you get automatic logging into Home Assistant and deep integration for free. Using Hypfer's discovery[1] that you could read the raw values from Ikea's Vindriktning using an ESP, I wrote an ESPHome script for an ESP01 that pipes the data into Home Assistant. Now when I'm cooking and
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the air quality gets too bad my HVAC fan kicks on to clear the air. It took longer to solder everything up than it did to "code". YAML: esphome: name: air-quality-sensor-1 esp8266: board: esp01_1m # Enable logging logger: # Disable logging baud_rate: 0 # Enable Home Assistant API api: ota: password: !secret aqs_ota_password wifi: ssid: !secret wifi_ssid password: !secret wifi_password # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails ap: ssid: "Air-Quality-Sensor-1" password: !secret aqs_hotspot_password captive_portal: # Setup Ikea Vindriktning PM2.5 sensor uart: rx_pin: GPIO3 baud_rate: 9600 sensor: - platform: pm1006 pm_2_5: name: "Ikea Vindriktning PM25" filters: - sliding_window_moving_average: window_size: 10 send_every: 10 [1] https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...
In ESPHome – Connect ESP32 with Sensors to HomeAssistant
ahaucnx·Dec 6, 2021
Author here. I forgot to mention: With a Wemos D1 mini (ESP8266) MCU that costs around USD 2.00, you can pretty easily make the Vindriktning WiFi connected and get the data to a backend [1]. You just need to solder three wires, and there is enough space within the enclosure to fit the D1 mini inside. This would then allow you to get the exact measurements and to better understand if the "green" is more on the lower end or the higher side. [1] https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...
In Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy

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